propugnaculum

Inter h鎐 autem existente imperio nostro, et omne belli grauamen in tantum sustinente, postrem� cohortes vniuers� Gnecorum et Latinorum, et reliquorum omnium generum conglobat�, qu� iaciebantur ab inimicis tela non sustinentes, impactione vtuntur, et ita violent鑢 ferebantur, d鵰 ad adiacentem ibi collem quasi ad propugnaculum festinarent: sed precedentes impellunt nolentes.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Narbo Martius, colonia nostrorum civium, specula populi Romani ac propugnaculum istis ipsis nationibus oppositum et objectum.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

Inter hæc autem existente imperio nostro, et omne belli grauamen in tantum sustinente, postremæ cohortes vniuersæ Gnecorum et Latinorum, et reliquorum omnium generum conglobatæ, quæ iaciebantur ab inimicis tela non sustinentes, impactione vtuntur, et ita violentèr ferebantur, dùm ad adiacentem ibi collem quasi ad propugnaculum festinarent: sed precedentes impellunt nolentes.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584

"pruning-hooks" when the bellicose propugnaculum found itself transformed into a church.

A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson