DEFENCE Copy link • DEFENCEProtection, tutela (defence in as far as it has anything under careful inspection, and averts from it whatever may be hurtful, for which meaning protectio is late Latin): praesidium (defence, in as far as through it one is sheltered, and can fly to it for refuge when in need of help): defensio (the defence or act by which one wards off damage or danger whencesoever proceeding): tutamentum (Liv.; means of defence): patrocinium (the defence or fatherly protection, which a patron affords to his client, or protege): to undertake anybody’s defence, aliquem in fidem recipere (as a superior, general, etc.): alicujus patrocinium suscipere (as a patron or advocate): to look to or fly to anybody for defence, se in fidem alicujus committere; se in fidem et tutelam alicujus conferre; se alicui in clientelam et fidem dare; alicujus fidem sequl (Vid: Herz., Caes., B.G., 4): that the defence of the city should be committed to the old men, seniores ad urbis custodiam ut praesto essent (Liv.). Vindication, excusatio (apology): purgatio (justification): responsio: causae dictio, or actio (defence before a court by a speech, etc.): to call upon anybody for his defence, rationem aliquem reddere jubere (call him to account): to undertake the defence of a cause, patrocinium causae suscipere: to decline the defence, patrocinium alicujus rei repudiare: to conduct one’s own defence, ipsum pro se dicere: to write one’s defence, or draw up a defence in writing, defensionem suae causae scribere. Resistance, defensio; means of defence, tutamen (general term); arma (arms); *quae ad aliquem tuendum or ad locum tuendum parantur: to prepare for defence, ad resistendum or ad vim propulsandam se parare (of a person); muros instruere (of a besieged general or force putting the walls in a state of defence; Vid: Herz., ad B.G., 7, 18): to put a fortress in a state of defence, castellum munire ac rebus necessariis instruere: to make a stout defence, fortiter repugnare or resistere: without any means of defence [Vid: DEFENCELESS]. Defensive works; fortification, operis munitio; opus (or opera) munitionesque; also munitiones only, or munimenta, plur.; opera, um, neuter: propugnaculum (figuratively): the art of defence or fortification, *ars muniendi; *architectura militaris: the natural means of defence (of a city), nativa praesidia (urbis, Cic.).