The corpus record — Latin

defensio

defensio · f

a defending, defence

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Where it lives

Pro M. Tullio 10 · 29.1/10k
Pro A. Caecina 22 · 21.18/10k
Pro P. Sulla 11 · 11.82/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 5 · 11.14/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 18 · 8.66/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 3 · 8.46/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 8 · 7.61/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 7 · 7.15/10k
In C. Verrem 70 · 6.97/10k
Pro M. Caelio 5 · 5.9/10k
Topica 4 · 5.84/10k
Pro L. Murena 6 · 5.69/10k

Densest 12 of 94 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

dēfensĭo — Lewis & Short

dēfensĭo, ōnis, f.defendo, no. II.,

I a defending, defence.

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; Cic. 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.

In the wild

defensionem Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 2.4.22
defensionem Tacitus, Annales 3.p67
defensio Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.12.10
defensione Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 31
defensionem Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.2
defensionis Cicero, Pro A. Caecina 38

6 of 490 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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