wall (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. mūrus (the most gen. word; in sing. of any line of wall, whether across country, round a town, or of the outer wall of a house2. moenia, ium (w.s of a town, ramparts)3. mācĕria (a low w. of mud, rough stones, or the like; such as bound the fields in North Wales or Yorkshire)4. păries, ĕtis, m. (partition w. between rooms or houses in the same row) • wall (subs.): 1. mūrus (the most gen. word; in sing. of any line of wall, whether across country, round a town, or of the outer wall of a house: in plur. of city walls): Caesar builds a wall across from L. Leman to Mt. Jura, Caesar perducit murum a lacu Lemano ad montem Juram, Caes. B. G. 1, 8: the w. of a town, murus oppidi, id. B. G. 7, 46: about the house w. I have given orders to Philotimus, de muro imperavi Philotimo, Cic. Att. 2, 4, 7: buildings not with common partition w.s, but each with its own outer w., aedificia non communione parietum sed propriis quaeque muris, Tac. A. 15, 43: the w.s of a city, muri urbis, Cic. N. D. 2, 40, 94. Fig.: be this your brazen w., hic murus aeneus esto, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 60: laws the bulwarks and w.s of quietness, leges propugnacula murique tranquillitatis, Cic. Pis. 4, 9. 2. moenia, ium (w.s of a town, ramparts): most lofty w.s, altissima moenia, Caes. B. C. 3, 80: to fence with w.s, urbem m. sepire, Cic. Sest. 42, 91. Fig.: w.s (sides) of a ship, moenia navis, Ov. M. 11, 532: w.s of the world, moenia mundi, Lucr. 1, 73. 3. mācĕria (a low w. of mud, rough stones, or the like; such as bound the fields in North Wales or Yorkshire): a w. without mortar, of rough stones and flint, m. sine calce ex caementis et silice, Cato, R. R. 15: a w. in a garden, m. in horto, Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 10: they had built before them a w. six feet high, maceriam in altitudinem sex pedum praeduxerant, Caes. B. G. 7, 69. 4. păries, ĕtis, m. (partition w. between rooms or houses in the same row): I broke through the w. in that room, perfodivi parietem in eo conclavi, Pl. Mil. 2, 1, 64: 'tis your risk when your neighbour's w. is aflame, tua res agitur paries quum proximus ardet, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 84: the w.s of a tower, parietes turris, Caes. B. C. 2, 9. Phr.: fallen-down w.s, parietinae, Cic. Tusc. 3, 22, 53: to build a w., murum (moenia, etc.) aedificare, Ov. M. 11, 204: ducere, perducere (expressing esp. the length of w.): Cic.: Caes.: exstruere (to raise): Cic.: Tac.: Caes.: instruere (to put in order the materials): Caes.: Tac.: v. to build: to pull down a w., m. destruere, Cic.: Virg.: diruere, Ter.: Cic.: to surround a city with w.s, moenibus urbem cingere, Ov. M. 4, 58: moenia urbi circumdare, moenibus urbem circumdare (both constructions frequent): Liv.: Caes.: Tac.: to batter w.s with a ram, quatere m. ariete, Liv. 21, ad fin.: ferire, Sall. J. 76: to make a breach in w.s, perfringere muros, Tac. H. 3, 20: through the breach in the w. they burst in, per apertum ruina iter perruperunt, Liv. 31, 46, ad fin.: to mount w.s, in moenia egredi, Tac. H. 4, 29. Fig.: to go to the w., cedere, etc.: v. to yield: the weakest must go to the w., *cedat necesse est validiori debilis.