Moenia

Latin-English

moenĭ|a, -ōrum. (ˈme.ni.a) neut. plur.

1. The walls around a city; fortifications, defenses.

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 7.11:

At idem Pericles non fecit annum fere post quinquagesimum, cum praeter moenia nihil teneret

But about fifty years later Pericles did not do likewise, when he defended nothing but the walls.