pūgnō āvī, ātus, āre
pugna,
to fight, combat, give battle, engage, contend
: sinistrā impeditā,
Cs.: eminus lapidibus, S.: cum hoste comminus in acie: ex equo,
on horseback
: de loco, T.: extra
ordinem in hostem, L.: contra inperium in
hostem, S.: advorsum multitudinem bene
pugnatum, S.: pugna summā
contentione pugnata: inclitam in ponte pugnam . . . pugnatam,
L.: bella, H.: pugnatur uno tempore omnibus locis,
the fighting goes on
, Cs.: comminus gladiis pugnatum est,
Cs.—
To contend, dispute
: de dis inmortalibus: pugnant Stoici cum Peripateticis:
pugnare, non esse rerum controversiam, sed nominum.—
To contend against, oppose, resist, contradict, struggle with
: ut totā in oratione tuā tecum ipse
pugnares,
you contradicted yourself
: pugnat sententia secum, H.: placitone etiam pugnabis amori?
V.; cf. Frigida pugnabant calidis, Mollia cum duris, etc.,
cold bodies contended with hot
, etc., O.: pugnant materque sororque,
i. e.
love for the mother and love for the sister
, O.: pugnatum est arte medendi, (the plague)
was resisted by the healing art
, O.—
To struggle, strive, endeavor, make exertion
: illud pugna et enitere, ne, etc.: pugnas, ne
reddar, Achille, O.: pugnarentque collegae, ut,
etc., L.: mollīs evincere somnos,
O.: in mea Volnera,
strive for what will smite me
, O.
