tūtēla ae, f
2 TV-,
a watching, keeping, charge, care, safeguard, defence, protection
: nullam corporis partem vacuam tutelā relinquere:
Apollo, cuius in tutelā Athenas esse voluerunt: filios suos tutelae populi
commendare: dii, quorum tutelae ea loca essent, L.: tutelae nostrae (eos) duximus,
regarded as under our protection
, L.: ut dicar tutelā pulsa
Minervae, O.—In law,
the office of guardian, guardianship, wardship, tutelage
: qui tibi in tutelam est traditus: in suam tutelam
venire, i. e.
to come of age
: ad sanos abeat tutela propinquos, H.:
tutelarum iura.—
A keeper, ward, guardian, watch, protector
: (Philemon et Baucis) templi tutela fuere,
O.: prorae tutela Melanthus, i. e.
the pilot
, O.: o tutela praesens Italiae
(Augustus), H.—
A charge, care, trust
: mirabamur, te ignorare, de tutelā
legitimā . . . nihil usucapi posse, i. e.
a ward's esiate.—A ward
: Virginum primae puerique Deliae tutela deae,
H.: tutela Minervae Navis, O.:
vetus draconis, Pr.
