safe-guard Copy link Outline 1. cautio (act or mode of guarding against)2. prōpugnācŭlum (a bulwark or work of defence)3. mūrus (a wall of defence4. mūnīmentum (protection, defence) • safe-guard: 1. cautio (act or mode of guarding against): there is but one s. against these evils, horum incommodorum una c. est [atque una provisio], Cic. Am. 21, 78 (foll. by ut ne): the same sense may be expr. by verb: ab his incommodis haud aliter cavendum est, quam si ...: v. to guard against. 2. prōpugnācŭlum (a bulwark or work of defence): Join: propugnacula murique (tranquillitatis), Cic. in Pis. 4, 9 (where the reference is to certain laws): v. bulwark. 3. mūrus (a wall of defence: only rhetor. or poet.): Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 60 (hic murus aheneus esto, a wall of brass, i. e. an impregnable s.): Cic. in Pis. l. c. 4. mūnīmentum (protection, defence): Tac. H. 4, 52 (firma imperii m.): Liv.