intrenchment Copy link Outline 1. vallum (rampart with palisades)2. mūnīmentum, mūnītio (any fortifications) • intrenchment: 1. vallum (rampart with palisades): to surround a town with i.s (for a siege), oppidum cingere vallo et fossa, Cic. Att. 5, 20, med.; circumdare, id. Fam. 15, 4, med. 2. mūnīmentum, mūnītio (any fortifications): to keep within one's i.s, tenere se munimentis, Tac. A. 13, 36; so, defendere se munimentis, id. H. 5, 20: the work of i., munitionis opus, Caes. B. G. 1, 8: to carry i.s round a city, munitiones circumdare, Just. 4, 4. Phr.: no one (now) forms a camp with a regular i., nemo ductis fossis praefixisque sudibus castra constituit, Veg. Mil. 1, 21.