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.