Limes (Roman boundary)

found: Web. 3(limes, pl. limites: a boundary line or line of fortification, specif. one of the fortified frontiers of the ancient Roman empire)

found: Oxford class. dict.(limes: originated as a surveyor's term for the path that simultaneously marked the boundaries of plots of land and gave access between them. It came to be used in a military sense, first of the roads that penetrated into enemy territory, and thence, as further conquest ceased, of the land boundaries that divided Roman territory from non-Roman.)