munimen

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mūnīmen, ĭnis, n. [1. munio],

a defence, fortification, rampart, enclosure (poet. and in post-class. prose): munimen ad imbres, a defence against the rains , Verg. G. 2, 352: fossas munimine cingere, Ov. M. 13, 212: narrat esse locum, solidae tutum munimine molis, id. ib. 4, 771: clausae portae, id. Am. 1, 6, 29: horti, a fence, hedge , Pall. 3, 24, 1.

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