moenia: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>moenĭa</b>: for [[munia]], v. h. v.<br /><b>moenĭa</b>: ĭum (<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. moeniōrum for moenium, [[like]] anciliorum for ancilium, acc. to Cledon. p. 1898 P.; abl. plur. MOENIIS for moenibus, Inscr. Grut. 408, 1, 34; in sing. [[moene]]: [[moene]] [[singulariter]] dixit [[Ennius]] (al. [[Naevius]]), Paul. ex Fest. p. 145 Müll.), n. perh. Sanscr. [[root]] mū-, [[bind]]; Gr. [[ἀμύνω]], [[μύνη]]>; cf.: [[munus]], [[immunis]], [[munio]], [[defensive]] walls, ramparts, bulwarks, [[city]] walls, as a [[means]] of [[protection]] and [[security]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit. ([[class]].): uti haberent tuta oppida [[quod]] operis muniebant, [[moenia]] dicta, Varr. L. L. 5, § 141 Müll.: domicilia conjuncta, quas urbes dicimus, moenibus sepserunt, Cic. Sest. 42, 91: diligentius urbem religione [[quam]] ipsis moenibus cingitis, id. N. D. 3, 40, 94; id. Ac. 2, 44, 137; id. Rep. 1, 11, 17: altissima, Caes. B. C. 3, 80: cum [[paene]] inaedificata in muris ab exercitu nostro [[moenia]] viderentur, bulwarks, fortifications, id. ib. 2, 16: [[summa]] arcis, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 1, 4 (Ann. v. 170 Vahl.): dividimus muros, et [[moenia]] pandimus urbis, Verg. A. 2, 234.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Poet., in gen., walls, [[enclosure]]: [[moenia]] [[navis]], Ov. M. 11, 532: angusta theatri, Lucr. 4, 82: mundi, id. 1, 73; cf. caeli, Ov. M. 2, 401.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[city]] enclosed by walls, a [[walled]] [[town]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): nulla jam [[pernicies]] moenibus ipsis [[intra]] [[moenia]] comparabitur, to [[our]] walls, i. e. [[our]] [[city]], Cic. Cat. 2, 1, 1: [[moenia]] lata videt triplici circumdata [[muro]], Verg. A. 6, 549: [[moenia]] circumdare [[muro]], Flor. 1, 4, 2; Vitr. 8, 4. —*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> A [[mansion]], [[dwelling]]: Ditis magni, Verg. A. 6, 541.