Meaning of moenia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. city walls, town walls, defensive walls, fortifications, ramparts, bulwarks
   declension-3, neuter, plural
2. in general: walls, enclosure
   declension-3, neuter, plural

Equivalents

Examples

“… genus unde Latīnum, Albānīque patrēs, atque altae moenia Rōmae.”

… from which came the Latin race, the Alban fathers, and the walls of high Rome. (The epic saga related in the opening lines of the Aeneid spans from ancient Troy to imperial Rome. Rome, built upon seven hills, was literally and figuratively “high” or “lofty,” and surrounded by defensive walls. Yet translations differ of the accusative plural “walls” [moenia] and genitive singular “of high Rome” [altae Romae], interpreted variously as “high walls” or “high Rome.” See: Latins (Italic tribe), Alban people, Servian Wall, Seven hills of Rome.)

“inde premēns stīvam dēsignat moenia sulcō;”

From there, pressing the plow handle, he marks out the city walls with a furrow; a white cow with a snow-white bull bore the yoke. (Romulus uses a plow to mark where the defensive walls of Rome are to be built.)

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