(verb) : prō-pugno, āvi, ātum, 1, and
* A.
* To rush out to fight, go forth to fight, to make sallies or sorties: ipsi ex silvis rari propugnabant,Caes. B. G. 5, 9; cf. id. ib. 2. 7; id. B. C. 2, 8.
* To fight or contend for, to defend a thing (class.; syn.: tutor, defendo).
* Lit.: uno tempore propugnare et munire,Caes. B. C. 3, 45: pro suo partu,Cic. Tusc. 5, 27, 79: multos e muris propugnantes hastā transfixit,Curt. 4, 4, 11.
* With dat. (post-class.): propugnare fratri,App. M. 9, p. 234, 28: puero misello,id. ib. 7, p. 200, 13.
* Trop.: pro aequitate,Cic. Off. 1, 19, 62: pro salute,id. Fam. 11, 16, 2.—With acc. (post-Aug.), to defend: absentiam suam,Suet. Caes. 23: dum quae libidine deliquerant, ambitu propugnant,Tac. A. 13, 31 fin.; 15, 13: pectora parmā,Stat. Th. 2. 584; 4, 110.

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