A defending. Propugnatio & defensio. Cic. Criminis defensio. Cic. Innocentiæ defensio sæpe multorum improbitate interclusa respirat. Cic. Breuis defensio. Cic. Facilis & prompta defensio. Cic. Fortis & inuicta defensio salutis meæ. Cic. Iniquior defensio. Cic. Mala & improba. Cic. Magnifica & præclara. Cic. Præclara defensio facinoris. Cic. Timida defen sio. Quint. Accipere vultu truci defensionem. Tacit. To heare the defence of one with a sterne and cruell countenaunce. Afferre ad defensionem. Cic. Vide AFFERO. Comparabit defensionem ex constitutionibus ab actore inductis defensor. Cic. He shal take matter to defende, &c. Dare defensionem. Cic. To permit one to defende himselfe. Habere defensionem in iudicio. Cic. Patefacere defensionem. Cic. Polliceri defensioni alicuius auxilium & silentium. Ci. To promise that they wil helpe him to defende him sclfe, and also heare him with silence. Probare defensionem suam aliquibus. Cic. To iustifie. Suscipere defensionem dignitatis alicuius. Cic. To take vpon him to defend ones honour. Rationem defensionis tentare. Cic. Vti defensione aliqua. Cic.

I. Prop.: Remis cum spe defensionis studium propugnandi accessit, Caes. B. G. 2, 7, 2.—With gen. subj.: urbium, id. ib. 7, 23, 5; id. B. C. 2, 7 fin.: ad istam omnem orationem brevis est defensio, Cic. Cael. 4; id. Verr. 2, 3, 88; id. Mil. 6, 15: nostra propugnatio ac defensio dignitatis tuae, id. Fam. 1, 7, 2 et saep.— With gen. obj.: defensio criminis, Quint. 7, 4, 3: criminum, Liv. 38, 49, 6: sceleris, Just. 39, 2, 8.—

B. Concr., a written defence, speech: defensionem Demosthenes legit, Plin. 7, 30, 31, 110.—

II. As jurid. t. t.

a. The legal maintenance of a right: libertatis, Cod. Just. 1, 7, 18.—

b. (Acc. to defendo, no. II. B. 2.) Legal prosecution, punishment of a crime: mortis, Dig. 29, 5, 1, 25.