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|lshtext=<b>dē-pugno</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a.<br /><b>I</b> To [[fight]] [[eagerly]], [[fight]] [[out]]; to [[contend]], [[combat]] [[violently]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Prop. (freq. and [[class]].): collatis signis, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 44; cf. Liv. 34, 46: acie instructā, * Caes, B. G. 7, 28: multi depugnant gemitusque edunt, Lucr. 4, 1015: [[haud]] [[procul]] moenibus, Liv. 10, 37; cf. id. 34, 46; 40, 34: [[adversus]] aliquem, Front. Strat. 2, 4, 6 et saep.: [[Torquatus]] cum Gallo [[apud]] Anienem depugnavit, Cic. Fin. 2, 22, 73: ad depugnandum, Nep. Them. 4, 4; so of [[single]] [[combat]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 22; id. Fin. 2, 22, 73; Suet. Caes. 39; and as a t. t. of gladiatorial combats, id. ib. 2, 17 fin.; Asin. [[Pollio]], ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 3; Quint. 8, 5, 12 Spald.; in the [[latter]] [[sense]] also [[with]] an [[object]]: feram, Dig. 3, 1, 1, § 6; cf. bestias, ib. 48, 8, 11.—Pass. impers.: [[ante]] depugnabitur, Cic. Att. 16, 11, 6: so, depugnarier, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 36: depugnatum est, Liv. 7, 26; 9, 39.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf. [[out]] of the milit. [[sphere]]: cum [[animo]] suo, Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 29: cum [[fame]], id. Stich. 4, 2, 47: morti, Sil. 10, 475.—And in a [[figure]] borrowed from the lang. of gladiators: unum [[par]], [[quod]] depugnet, reliquum est [[voluptas]] cum honestate, Cic. Ac. 2, 46; cf.: [[natura]] [[atque]] [[luxuria]] depugnant (flores), [[rival]] one [[another]], Plin. 21, 8, 22, § 46: indocti stolidique et depugnare parati, * Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 184.—*<br /><b>II</b> To [[fight]] to the [[end]], [[stop]] [[fighting]]: depugnato [[proelio]], "the [[day]] [[after]] the [[fair]]," Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 31.