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impugno

impugno · v. a

to fight against

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Where it lives

De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
De Monogamia 1 · 1.43/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 1 · 1.16/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 2 · 0.99/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 1 · 0.96/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

impugno — Lewis & Short

impugno (inp-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.in-pugno,

I to fight against a person or thing, to attack, assail (class.; esp. in the transf. and trop. signif.; cf.: invado, opprimo, aggredior, adorior).

I Lit., in the milit. sphere: terga hostium, Liv. 3, 70, 4: Syracusae a cive impugnatae sunt (for which, shortly after, oppugnari), Just. 22, 2. — Absol.: nostri redintegratis viribus acrius impugnare coeperunt, * Caes. B. G. 3, 26, 4; Just. 38, 4.—

II Transf., beyond the milit. sphere, to attack, assail, oppose, impugn: qui (Scaurus) tametsi a principio acerrime regem (Jugurtham) impugnaverat, tamen, etc., Sall. J. 29, 2: cujus vel praecipua opera Bibulum impugnaverat, Suet. Caes. 21; Cic. Fam. 3, 12, 1: veneficiis et devotionibus impugnari, Suet. Calig. 3: saepe quae in aliis litibus impugnarunt actores causarum, eadem in aliis defendunt, Quint. 2, 17, 40: filii caput palam, id. 11, 1, 62: dignitatem alicujus, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 439, 3; Hirt. B. G. 8, 53, 1: sententiam, Tac. H. 4, 8: meritum et fidem, Ov. M. 5, 151: finitionem alterius, Quint. 7, 3, 22: nostra, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 89; Quint. 4, 1, 14. —Absol.: cum illis id tempus impugnandi detur, Cic. Quint. 2, 8.

In the wild

impugnaret Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 8.53.1
impugnatum Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.35.2
impugnandi Cicero, Pro P. Quinctio 8
Impugnabat Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.2.4
impugnent Ovid, Remedia Amoris 364
impugnanda Cicero, Letters to and from Brutus 1.15.10

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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