ward (v.) Copy link Outline 1. arceo, 22. dēfendo, di, nsum, 33. prōpulso, 14. āverto, ti, sum, 3 (to avert)5. āmŏveo, mōvi, mōtum, 2 (to keep far away, remove)6. căveo, cāvi, cautum, 2 (to beware of, guard against) • ward (v.): To w. or keep off: 1. arceo, 2: you will w. him off from your altars, hunc a tuis aris arcebis, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 33: he w.'d off the foe from Gaul, hostem arcuit Gallia, id. Phil. 5, 13, 37: to w. off the gad-fly from cattle, arcere oestrum pecori, Virg. G. 3, 155: to w. off a blow, plagam arcere, Ov. M. 3, 89. 2. dēfendo, di, nsum, 3: to w. off blows, defendere ictus, Caes. B. C. 2, 9: to w. off wrong, d. injuriam, Cic. Off. 3. 18, 74: fire is w.'d off from the roofs, ignis defenditur a tectis, Ov. R. Am. 625: to w. off summer heat from goats, d. aestatem capellis, Hor. Od. 1, 17, 3. 3. prōpulso, 1: to w. off an enemy, propulsare hostem, Caes. B. G. 1, 49: to w. off danger, p. periculum, Cic. Clu. 52, 144. 4. āverto, ti, sum, 3 (to avert): which my friends could not w. off from me, quod non poterant avertere amici, Prop. 3, 24, 9. 5. āmŏveo, mōvi, mōtum, 2 (to keep far away, remove): the Porcian law w.s off blows from citizens, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 12. 6. căveo, cāvi, cautum, 2 (to beware of, guard against): to w. off a blow, ictum c., Lucr. 6, 406: c. vim, Tac. A. 11, 1.