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|lshtext=<b>tūtēla</b>: ae, f. 1. [[tutor]],<br /><b>I</b> a watching, [[keeping]], [[charge]], [[care]], safeguard, [[defence]], [[protection]] (syn.: [[praesidium]], [[cura]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: tutelam januae gerere, Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 43: foribus tutelam gerere, id. Trin. 4, 2, 28: viae, Dig. 31, 1, 30: suo [[tergo]] tutelam gerere, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 51: [[nunc]] de septis, quae tutandi causā fundi fiant dicam. Earum tutelarum genera [[quattuor]], etc., Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: pecudum silvestrium, [[care]], [[management]], Col. 9, praef. § 1: boum, id. 6, 2, 15: aselli, id. 7, 1, 2: tenuiorum, [[support]], [[maintenance]], Suet. Caes. 68: lanae tutelam praestant [[contra]] frigora, Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30: ut villarum [[tutela]] non [[sit]] oneri, id. 18, 5, 6, § 31; 35, 3, 4, § 14: [[classis]], Just. 16, 3, 9: cum de hominis summo bono quaererent, nullam in eo [[neque]] animi [[neque]] corporis partem vacuam [[tutela]] reliquerunt, Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 36: [[tutela]] ac [[praesidium]] bellicae virtutis, id. Mur. 10, 22: [[Apollo]], cujus in tutelā Athenas antiqui historici esse voluerunt, id. N. D. 3, 22, 55; cf.: [[quare]] [[sit]] in ejus [[tutela]] [[Gallia]], cujus, etc., id. Prov. Cons. 14, 35: intellegi volumus salutem hominum in ejus (Jovis) esse [[tutela]], id. Fin. 3, 20, 66: [[Juno]], cujus in tutelā [[Argi]] sunt, Liv. 34, 24, 2; Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 18: subicere aliquid tutelae alicujus, Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38: filios suos parvos tutelae populi commendare, id. de Or. 1, 53, 228: dii, quorum tutelae ea loca essent, Liv. 1, 6, 4: quae suae fidei tutelaeque essent, id. 24, 22, 15: publicae tutelae esse, id. 42, 19, 5; 21, 41, 12: te Jovis [[impio]] Tutela Saturno Eripuit, Hor. C. 2, 17, 23: ut dicar tutelā pulsa Minervae, Ov. M. 2, 563: dique deaeque omnes, quibus est [[tutela]] per agros, Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 41: ut te generi [[humano]], cujus [[tutela]] et [[securitas]] saluti tuae innisa est, incolumem praestarent, Plin. Ep. 10, 52 (60).— With gen. obj.: loci, [[protection]], Just. 41, 5, 3.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., jurid. t. t., the [[office]] of a [[guardian]], [[guardianship]], [[wardship]], [[tutelage]] of minors, [[insane]] persons, etc.: [[tutela]] est, ut [[Servius]] definit, vis ac [[potestas]] in capite [[libero]] ad tuendum eum, qui [[propter]] aetatem suā [[sponte]] se defendere nequit, jure civili [[data]] ac permissa, Dig. 26, 1 (De tutelis), 1: tradere aliquem in tutelam alicujus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 193: in suam tutelam venire, to [[become]] one's [[own]] [[master]], [[come]] of [[age]], Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 180; Dig. 37, 11, 8, § 1; Cic. Top. 10, 44; id. Brut. 52, 195; 53, 197; id. Inv. 2, 21, 62; Gai. 2, 179; Nep. Eum. 2, 1; [[rarely]] in the [[order]], in tutelam suam venire, Cic. Inv. 2, 42, 122: tutelae suae fieri, Sen. Ep. 33, 10: fraudare pupillum, qui in tutelam pervenit, Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 16: alicujus tutelam accipere, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 17: ad sanos abeat [[tutela]] propinquos, Hor. S. 2, 3, 218: rei publicae, Cic. Off. 1, 25, 85: tutelam filiorum [[servo]] committere, Just. 4, 2, 5: tutelam pupilli suscipere, id. 30, 2, 8: gerere, Val. Max. 6, 6, 1: nancisci, to [[become]] [[guardian]], Just. Inst. 1, 12, 6: administrare, Dig. 26, 7, 3, § 2: reddere, ib. 5, 1, 2, § 3.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., concr.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Act., [[like]] [[our]] [[watch]], of [[that]] [[which]] guards or protects, a [[keeper]], [[warder]], [[guardian]], [[protector]] ([[mostly]] [[poet]].): (Philemon et [[Baucis]]) templi [[tutela]] fuere, Ov. M. 8, 711: prorae [[tutela]] [[Melanthus]], i. e. the [[pilot]] at the [[prow]], = [[proreta]], id. ib. 3, 617: o [[tutela]] [[praesens]] Italiae ([[Augustus]]), Hor. C. 4, 14, 43: ([[Achilles]]) [[decus]] et [[tutela]] [[Pelasgi]] Nominis, Ov. M. 12, 612: rerum [[tutela]] mearum Cum sis ([[shortly]] [[before]]: [[curator]] a praetore [[datus]]), Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 103.—Of the [[image]] of the tutelar [[deity]] of a [[ship]]: [[navis]], cujus [[tutela]] ebore caelata est, etc., Sen. Ep. 76, 13; Lact. 1, 11, 19; cf. Sil. 14, 543; Petr. 105 and 108.—Of the tutelar [[deity]] of a [[place]], Petr. 57; Auct. Priap. 37; Hier. in Isa. 57, 7; Inscr. Orell. 1698 sq.; 1736.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A [[remedy]] [[against]], [[cure]]: si [[qua]] est [[tutela]] podagrae, Grat. Cyn. 478.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Pass., of [[that]] [[which]] is [[guarded]] or protected, a [[charge]], [[care]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen. ([[poet]].): virginum primae puerique claris Patribus orti, Deliae [[tutela]] deae, Hor. C. 4, 6, 33: [[Lanuvium]] annosi [[vetus]] est [[tutela]] draconis, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 3: [[sit]], [[precor]], [[tutela]] Minervae Navis, Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 1 sq.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., in jurid. lang., [[that]] [[which]] is under [[guardianship]] or [[tutelage]]: in officiis [[apud]] majores ita observatum est: [[primum]] tutelae, [[deinde]] hospiti, [[deinde]] clienti, tum cognato, [[postea]] affini, a [[ward]], Massur. ap. Gell. 5, 13, 5.—Of the [[property]] of a [[ward]]: mirabamur, te ignorare, de tutelā legitimā ... [[nihil]] usucapi posse, Cic. Att. 1, 5, 6: [[nihil]] potest de tutelā legitimā [[sine]] omnium tutorum auctoritate deminui, id. Fl. 34, 84; Dig. 26, 7, 5.

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