tūtēla (noun F) : 1. tutor
* A watching, keeping, charge, care, safeguard, defence, protection (syn.: praesidium, cura).
* Lit.
* In gen.: tutelam januae gerere,Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 43: foribus tutelam gerere,id. Trin. 4, 2, 28: viae,Dig. 31, 1, 30: suo tergo tutelam gerere,Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 51: nunc de septis, quae tutandi causā fundi fiant dicam. Earum tutelarum genera quattuor, etc.,Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 1: pecudum silvestrium,care, management,Col. 9, praef. § 1: boum,id. 6, 2, 15: aselli,id. 7, 1, 2: tenuiorum,support, maintenance,Suet. Caes. 68: lanae tutelam praestant contra frigora,Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 30: ut villarum tutela non sit oneri,id. 18, 5, 6, § 31; 35, 3, 4, § 14: classis,Just. 16, 3, 9: cum de hominis summo bono quaererent, nullam in eo neque animi neque corporis partem vacuam tutela reliquerunt,Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 36: tutela ac praesidium bellicae virtutis,id. Mur. 10, 22: Apollo, cujus in tutelā Athenas antiqui historici esse voluerunt,id. N. D. 3, 22, 55; cf.: quare sit in ejus tutela Gallia, cujus, etc.,id. Prov. Cons. 14, 35: intellegi volumus salutem hominum in ejus (Jovis) esse tutela,id. Fin. 3, 20, 66: Juno, cujus in tutelā Argi sunt,Liv. 34, 24, 2; Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 18: subicere aliquid tutelae alicujus,Cic. Fin. 4, 14, 38: filios suos parvos tutelae populi commendare,id. de Or. 1, 53, 228: dii, quorum tutelae ea loca essent,Liv. 1, 6, 4: quae suae fidei tutelaeque essent,id. 24, 22, 15: publicae tutelae esse,id. 42, 19, 5; 21, 41, 12: te Jovis impio Tutela Saturno Eripuit,Hor. C. 2, 17, 23: ut dicar tutelā pulsa Minervae,Ov. M. 2, 563: dique deaeque omnes, quibus est tutela per agros,Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 41: ut te generi humano, cujus tutela et securitas saluti tuae innisa est, incolumem praestarent,Plin. Ep. 10, 52 (60).— With gen. obj.: loci,protection,Just. 41, 5, 3.
* Transf., concr.
* Act., like our watch, of that which guards or protects, a keeper, warder, guardian, protector (mostly poet.): (Philemon et Baucis) templi tutela fuere,Ov. M. 8, 711: prorae tutela Melanthus, i. e. the pilot at the prow, = proreta, id. ib. 3, 617: o tutela praesens Italiae (Augustus),Hor. C. 4, 14, 43: (Achilles) decus et tutela Pelasgi Nominis,Ov. M. 12, 612: rerum tutela mearum Cum sis (shortly before: curator a praetore datus),Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 103.—Of the image of the tutelar deity of a ship: navis, cujus tutela ebore caelata est, etc.,Sen. Ep. 76, 13; Lact. 1, 11, 19; cf. Sil. 14, 543; Petr. 105 and 108.—Of the tutelar deity of a place, Petr. 57; Auct. Priap. 37; Hier. in Isa. 57, 7; Inscr. Orell. 1698 sq.; 1736.
* A remedy against, cure: si qua est tutela podagrae,Grat. Cyn. 478.
* Pass., of that which is guarded or protected, a charge, care.
* In gen. (poet.): virginum primae puerique claris Patribus orti, Deliae tutela deae,Hor. C. 4, 6, 33: Lanuvium annosi vetus est tutela draconis,Prop. 4 (5), 8, 3. sit, precor, tutela Minervae Navis,Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 1 sq.
* In partic., in jurid. lang., that which is under guardianship or tutelage: in officiis apud majores ita observatum est: primum tutelae, deinde hospiti, deinde clienti, tum cognato, postea affini, a ward, Massur. ap. Gell. 5, 13, 5.—Of the property of a ward: mirabamur, te ignorare, de tutelā legitimā ... nihil usucapi posse,Cic. Att. 1, 5, 6: nihil potest de tutelā legitimā sine omnium tutorum auctoritate deminui,id. Fl. 34, 84; Dig. 26, 7, 5.