I.a watching, keeping, charge, care, safeguard, defence, protection (syn.: praesidium, cura).
I. Lit.
A. 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.—
B. In partic., jurid. t. t., the office of a guardian, guardianship, wardship, tutelage of minors, insane persons, etc.: “tutela est, ut Servius definit, vis ac potestas in capite libero ad tuendum eum, qui propter aetatem suā sponte se defendere nequit, jure civili data ac permissa,” Dig. 26, 1 (De tutelis), 1: tradere aliquem in tutelam alicujus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 2, 46, 193: “in suam tutelam venire,” to become one's own master, come of age, Cic. de Or. 1, 39, 180; Dig. 37, 11, 8, § 1; Cic. Top. 10, 44; id. Brut. 52, 195; 53, 197; id. Inv. 2, 21, 62; Gai. 2, 179; Nep. Eum. 2, 1; “rarely in the order, in tutelam suam venire,” Cic. Inv. 2, 42, 122: tutelae suae fieri, Sen. Ep. 33, 10: “fraudare pupillum, qui in tutelam pervenit,” Cic. Rosc. Com. 6, 16: “alicujus tutelam accipere,” Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 17: “ad sanos abeat tutela propinquos,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 218: “rei publicae,” Cic. Off. 1, 25, 85: “tutelam filiorum servo committere,” Just. 4, 2, 5: “tutelam pupilli suscipere,” id. 30, 2, 8: “gerere,” Val. Max. 6, 6, 1: “nancisci,” to become guardian, Just. Inst. 1, 12, 6: “administrare,” Dig. 26, 7, 3, § 2: “reddere,” ib. 5, 1, 2, § 3.—
II. Transf., concr.
A. 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.—
B. Pass., of that which is guarded or protected, a charge, care.
1. 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.—
2. 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.
