insecure Copy link Outline 1. expr. by tūtus, mūnītus, firmus, and negative particle (haud, parum, etc.)2. intūtus3. male fīdus, or as one word (poet.)4. infestus (beset by robbers, pirates, etc.) • insecure: 1. expr. by tūtus, mūnītus, firmus, and negative particle (haud, parum, etc.): v. secure. 2. intūtus: to strengthen the i. parts of the walls, intuta moenium firmare, Tac. H. 3, 76. (Not in Cic.; and in Liv. = undefended.) 3. male fīdus, or as one word (poet.): an i. anchorage, statio male f., Virg. Aen. 2, 23. 4. infestus (beset by robbers, pirates, etc.): opp. to tutus, Liv. 2, 49, sua tuta omnia, infesta hostium (unsafe because of inroads): v. unsafe, infested. Phr.: (their) footing being i. on the incline, in prono pede se fallente, Liv. 21, 36; *quum non possent vestigio pedibus firmiter insistere.