rampart
rampart
subs.
Mound: P. and V. χῶμα, τό, P. χοῦς, ὁ.
Battlement: P. and V. ἔρῠμα, τό, ἔπαλξις, ἡ, τεῖχος, τό ; see battlement, defence.
subs.
Mound: P. and V. χῶμα, τό, P. χοῦς, ὁ.
Battlement: P. and V. ἔρῠμα, τό, ἔπαλξις, ἡ, τεῖχος, τό ; see battlement, defence.
RAMPART
PROP. vallum (the whole of that part of fortification with its palisades fascines etc.): agger (a mound either of stone rubbish or earth). To erect or to make a rampart aggerem jacere or facere or exstruere: vallum ducere: to surround the camp with a rampart and ditch castra munire vallo fossaque: to surround a town with a rampart and ditch urbem vallo et fossā cingere.
Figuratively Anything serving as a defence; Vid. DEFENCE BULWARK.
PROP. vallum (the whole of that part of fortification with its palisades fascines etc.): agger (a mound either of stone rubbish or earth). To erect or to make a rampart aggerem jacere or facere or exstruere: vallum ducere: to surround the camp with a rampart and ditch castra munire vallo fossaque: to surround a town with a rampart and ditch urbem vallo et fossā cingere.
Figuratively Anything serving as a defence; Vid. DEFENCE BULWARK.
rampart:
I.
1. agger, ĕris, m. (a mound of earth, serving as a fortification; usu. surmounted by a stockade, consisting of sharpened stakes, valli): v.MOUND .
2. vallum (prop. a stockade; also used to include the agger): Caes.: Cic. The above two words are sometimes used together to signify the rampart, but more frequently one only; and more usu. vallum: to erect a r., aggerem ac vallum exstruere, Caes. B. G. 7, 72; aggerem exstruere, ib. 2, 30; aggerem jacere, ib. 2, 12; vallum ducere (to carry a r. along), Liv. 7, 23, med.: to fortify the camp with a r. and a ditch, castra v. fossaque munire, Caes. B. G. 2, 5: to surround the town with a r. and a ditch (lines of circumvallation), oppidum v. et fossa circumdare or cingere, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10: id. Att. 5, 20, 5: to scale the r. with ladders, scalis v. ascendere, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: to destroy the r., v. scindere, ib. 3, 5.
II. The wall around fortified places, mūrus, moenia: v.WALL .
III. Any kind of defence: vallum, mūnīmentum, propugnācŭlum: v.BULWARK , FORTIFICATION . Fig.: the r. of the Alps against the passage of the Gauls, Alpium vallum contra transgressionem Gallorum, Cic. in Pis. 33, 81. Fig.: the ear of corn is protected against the smaller birds by a r. of acorns, spica contra avium minorum morsus munitur vallo aristarum, id. Sen. 15, 51. See also FORTIFICATION .
I.
1. agger, ĕris, m. (a mound of earth, serving as a fortification; usu. surmounted by a stockade, consisting of sharpened stakes, valli): v.
2. vallum (prop. a stockade; also used to include the agger): Caes.: Cic. The above two words are sometimes used together to signify the rampart, but more frequently one only; and more usu. vallum: to erect a r., aggerem ac vallum exstruere, Caes. B. G. 7, 72; aggerem exstruere, ib. 2, 30; aggerem jacere, ib. 2, 12; vallum ducere (to carry a r. along), Liv. 7, 23, med.: to fortify the camp with a r. and a ditch, castra v. fossaque munire, Caes. B. G. 2, 5: to surround the town with a r. and a ditch (lines of circumvallation), oppidum v. et fossa circumdare or cingere, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10: id. Att. 5, 20, 5: to scale the r. with ladders, scalis v. ascendere, Caes. B. G. 5, 43: to destroy the r., v. scindere, ib. 3, 5.
II. The wall around fortified places, mūrus, moenia: v.
III. Any kind of defence: vallum, mūnīmentum, propugnācŭlum: v.
moenia
defensive walls, ramparts, bulwarks, city walls
vallum
a line of palisades, palisaded rampart, intrenchment, circumvallation
agger
a mass, heap, collection, pile; rampart
munimentum
a defence, fortification, intrenchment, rampart, bulwark, protection
propugnaculum
a bulwark, tower, rampart, fortress, defence
a defence, fortification, rampart, enclosure
defensive walls, ramparts, bulwarks, city walls
vallum
a line of palisades, palisaded rampart, intrenchment, circumvallation
agger
a mass, heap, collection, pile; rampart
munimentum
a defence, fortification, intrenchment, rampart, bulwark, protection
propugnaculum
a bulwark, tower, rampart, fortress, defence
appearing fewer than 50 times
munimena defence, fortification, rampart, enclosure
Rampart
See agger; vallum.