Depugno, depúgnas, pe. pro. depugnâre. To fight valiantly: to striue: to disagree.Depugnauit Græcia apud Salamina. Plin. Greece fought at Salamine.Depugnare possessionis causa.Cic.To fight for.Peregrè depugnare.Cic.To fight in a straunge countrey.Depugna potius qum seruias.Cic.Collatis signis depugnare. Plau. To fight with banners displaied in the field.Versis gladijs.Plaut.Classe. Plin. To fight by sea.Depugnauit cum Gallo apud Anienem prouocatus.Cic.Depugnare ferro, Cic.To fight with a sword.Depugnant inter se ferro. Hirt. Depugnare cum animo suo.Plaut.To striue with his owne myude.Depugnat voluptas cum honestate.Cic.Pleasure and honesty agreeth not.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dē-pugno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a.I.To fight eagerly, fight out; to contend, combat violently. A. 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, 17fin.; 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.—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.—II.To fight to the end, stop fighting: depugnato proelio, "the day after the fair," Plaut. Men. 5, 6, 31.