vindex icis, m and f VAN-, DIC-, a maintainer, defender, protector, deliverer, liberator, champion: vos legi vindices praeponere: aeris alieni, i. e. of debtors: iniuriae, from wrong, L.: periculi, in peril, L.: aurum Vindice decepto misistis in urbes, O.: dignus vindice nodus, H.
—An avenger, punisher, revenger: (carcer) vindex scelerum: parentis, O.: deae . . . vindices facinorum et scelerum: vindice flammā, O.