man (v.) Copy link Outline I. To furnish ships with crewsII. To guard with men • man (v.): I. To furnish ships with crews: compleo, ēvi, ētum, 2: to m. a fleet with farm-labourers and shepherds, classem colonis pastoribusque c., Caes. B. C. 1, 56 (the usu. expr. is sociis navalibus c., Liv. 24, 11, extr.). See also to equip. II. To guard with men: Phr.: not garrison enough to m. the walls, praesidii tantum ut ne murus quidem cingi possit, Caes. B. G. 6, 36: the inhabitants m.'d every house and wall, *oppidani in omnibus aedibus parietibusque defensores aderant: to m. and defend every position, omnia tueri atque obire, Liv. 21, 8, init. See also to defend.