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.
INSECURE Copy link • INSECURENot to be passed without danger (e.g., road), infestus. To render insecure, infestum reddere or habere (general term): infestare latrociniis (to render unsafe by robberies; e.g., a district, etc.): infestare latrociniis ac praedationibus (by piracy; e.g., the sea): to be insecure, infestari latrociniis (of high roads, etc.). Not well kept, intutus (e.g., town, camp). Not standing firm, instabilis (PROP.; of what cannot stand fast; e.g., gradus, incessus, step, walk): lubricus (PROP.; slippery, where people may easily full; then figuratively, where one may easily make a mistake; e.g., ratio defensionis): also, (The words are found in this connection and order.) instabilis et lubricus (e.g., step, gradus): lubricus atque instabilis (e.g., ground, solum): incertus (figuratively, uncertain, relating to cases where one does not know how one stands, or how anything may turn out, precarious; of things; e.g., hope, spes; times, tempora; situation, res); also, (The words are found in this connection and order.) lubricus atque incertus (e.g., age, aetas): infidus (figuratively, that one cannot trust or rely upon; e.g., friend, good faith, promise).