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|lshtext=<b>dēfensor</b>: ōris, m., rar. f. id..<br /><b>I</b> One [[who]] fends, wards, averts, or keeps [[off]]: necis, Cic. Mil. 22, 58: periculi, id. Mur. 2.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[defender]], [[protector]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen. (for syn. cf.: [[tutor]], [[praeses]], [[vindex]], [[cognitor]], [[curator]], [[patronus]], [[advocatus]], [[causidicus]]): paterni juris, Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 244; cf. id. Mil. 15: juris et libertatis, id. Rab. perd. 4, 12: [[octo]] tribuni [[plebis]], illius adversarii, defensores mei, id. Mil. 15; cf. Hor. S. 2, 5, 30; opp. [[petitor]], Quint. 4, 2, 132: [[bonus]], id. 5, 13, 3 et saep.; opp. [[accusator]], id. 7, 2, 31; 5, 13, 3; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 38, § 82 et saep.; cf. [[patronus]]. Once fem.: [[mulier]] [[defensor]] alicujus, Dig. 16, 1, 2 fin.: [[canes]] defensores, Varr. R. R. 2, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp. in <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>, defensores, the [[garrison]]: [[oppidum]] [[vacuum]] ab defensoribus, Caes. B. G. 2, 12; id. ib. 3, 25 et saep.; Sall. J. 23; Liv. 21, 11; Verg. A. 2, 521; Ov. M. 13, 274 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Defensor civitatis, or [[plebis]], or loci, in the [[later]] [[period]] of the [[empire]] ([[since]] 365 A.D.), [[title]] of a [[magistrate]] in the [[provincial]] cities, whose [[chief]] [[duty]] [[was]] to [[afford]] [[protection]] [[against]] [[oppression]] on the [[part]] of the [[governor]]; he [[was]] [[likewise]] endowed [[with]] a [[subordinate]] [[civil]] [[jurisdiction]], Cod. Theod. 1, 11; Cod. Just. 1, 55; Just. Inst. 1, 20, 5.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Of [[inanimate]] subjects, as the guards (sublicae) of a [[bridge]], Caes. B. G. 4, 17 fin.>