Propugno, propugnas, propugnâre. Pli. To sight for: to fight valiauntly: to defende.Propugnare commoda patriæ. Cice. Against enemies to defende the commodities of his countrie.Propugnare pro æquitate, Cic.To fight or contende for equitie.Pro innocentibus propugnare, & Nocentes oppugnare opposita. Cic.Acerrimè propugnare pro salute alicuius.Cic.Armatus nugis propugnat. Hor.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
prō-pugno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a.I.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.—II.To fight or contend for, to defend a thing (class.; syn.: tutor, defendo). A.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. —(b). With dat. (post-class.): propugnare fratri, App. M. 9, p. 234, 28: puero misello, id. ib. 7, p. 200, 13.—B.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.