FENCE Copy link • FENCEs. sepes: sepimentum (general term): indago (a temporary fence round part of a forest): septum (the enclosure, but also the fence that encloses; in this sense usually, in Cic., always, plur.: conseptum seems to mean the enclosure only): murus (wall): cohors or chors (for cattle; both stationary and moveable fences, as well as the place enclosed by them): maceria (a wall made of clay or loam round a vineyard): tutela (general term for a protection or defence; used by Varr., of hedges, de septis... dicam. Earum tutelarum, etc.): munimentum (that by which one defends one’s self or a place). A natural fence, naturale sepimentum vivae sepis, or viva sepes only (of a hedge). To make fences, facere septa: to pull down fences, septa revellere (Cic.): by what fences shall we keep in such wild beasts as these? quibus septis tam immanes beluas continebimus? to make a fence round anything, sepire or consepire aliquid; round a forest, silvam indagine cingere, munire: to make a fence all round, circumsepire; septo circumdare; cingere munimento sepis: a place surrounded by a fence, or fences, septum, conseptum, etc. Fencing, Vid: FENCE, TRANS. To enclose with a fence, sepire: consepire aliquid (Vid: in last article). To fence a space in with strong stakes, locum robustis stipitibus sepire (Inscr. Orell.). To guard, to fortify, Vid: FENCE, INTRANS. To use the sword, etc., armis uti. If for practice, batuere: to have learned to fence or fencing, *armis uti didicisse: to fence well, armis optime uti.