fortification Copy link Outline 1. mūnītio (used both of the operation and the works constructed)2. moenia, ium (esp. the fortified walls of a city)3. mūnīmentum (any work of defence)4. mūnīmen, ĭnis, n. (= preced., but poet.) • fortification: 1. mūnītio (used both of the operation and the works constructed): to hinder the soldiers from (the work of) f., milites a m. prohibere (= a muniendis castris), Caes. B. G. 1, 49: in the course of the f. of a town, in m. oppidi (= in muniendo oppido), Suet.: to enclose a city with works and f.s, (urbem) operibus munitionibusque sepire, Cic. Phil. 13, 9, 20: f.s and forts, m. et castella, Tac. 2. moenia, ium (esp. the fortified walls of a city): to surround cities with f.s, urbes moenibus cingere, sepire, Cic.: we open a way through the f.s of the city, m. pandimus urbis, Virg.: v. wall. 3. mūnīmentum (any work of defence): the trench of the Quirites, no insignificant f., fossa Quiritium, haud parvum m., Liv. 1, 33: to keep the soldiers within the f.s, coercere intra m. militem, Tac. H. 2, 18: Caes. 4. mūnīmen, ĭnis, n. (= preced., but poet.): Virg.: Ov.