Vindex, víndicis, pen. cor. com. g. Cic.A reuenger of wrongs, a punisher: a redresser of things. A defender: he that setteth at libertie, or out of daunger. A proctout or attourney prosecuting an other mans matter. One that deliuereth himselfe out of bondage. A keeper of possession.Vindex temeritatis & moderatrix ossicij, Curio Cic.The punisher of rashnesse, and, &c.Peccatorum vindex. C. The punisher of things done amisse.Vindex & oppressor coniurationis. Ci. Vindex & vltor. Col. Facinorum & sceleris vindex.Cic.Fraudis auaræ vindex. Horat. Linguæ magnæ vindex. Ho. The punisher of a proud toungIuftissimus vindex.Ouid. Carcer, nefariorum vindex. Ci. Vindex. Ci. He that vefendeth and setteth at libertie.Extitisti tu vindex nostræ libertatis.Cic.Thou mast the restorer of our libertie. Pœna vindex. Catul. Vires vindices. Ouid.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vindex, ĭcis, comm. [vindico]. I.One who lays legal claim to a thing, a claimant; hence, also, a maintainer, defender, protector, deliverer, liberator, vindicator: vindex ab eo, quod vindicat, quominus is, qui prensus est, ab aliquo teneatur, Fest. p. 376 Müll.: ASSIDVO. VINDEX. ASSIDVVS. ESTO. PROLETARIO. CIVI. QVOI. QVIS. VOLET. VINDEX. ESTO, XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 16, 10, 5: habeat sane populus tabellam quasi vindicem libertatis, Cic. Leg. 3, 17, 39: aeris alieni,
, id. 10, 5, 5: terrae (Hercules), Ov. M. 9, 241: aurum Vindice decepto Graias misistis in urbes, id. ib. 7, 214: nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit, Hor. A. P. 191: honori posterorum tuorum ut vindex fieres,
a preserver
, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 18.—In apposition: audita vox una (provoco) vindex libertatis, Liv. 3, 56, 6: vindicibus pacatus viribus orbis, Ov. H. 9, 13.—II.An avenger, punisher, revenger: conjurationis, Cic. Fam. 5, 6, 2: custos ac vindex cupiditatum, id. Agr. 2, 9, 24: vindex ultorque parentis, Ov. M. 5, 237.—Fem.: Furiae deae ... vindices facinorum et scelerum, Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 46; of Tisiphone, Stat. Th. 1, 80.—In apposition: vindice flammā, Ov. M. 1, 230: poena, Cat. 64, 192.