Another noun of general meaning which gets precision from a genitive is fundamentum; whether literal or figurative, we want to know, the foundations of what? and the context tells, though not always merely by means of a genitive: quin cum fundamento _aedes_ perierunt, Most. 148; solum et quasi fundamentum _oratoris_ vides, _locutionem emendatam_ et _Latinam_, Brut. 258; fundamenta _rei publicae_ ieci, Fam. XII, 25, 2; fundamenta ieci _salutis_ tuae, Fam. X, 29, 1; _arcem_ Syracusis a fundamentis disiecit, Nepos, XX, 3, 3; hic locus sicut aliquod fundamentum est huius _constitutionis_, Inv. II, 19; qui a fundamentis mi usque movisti _mare_, Rud. 539; prima fundamenta _urbi_ iacere, Liv. 1, 12, 4; alta fundamenta _theatri_ locare, Aen. 1, 428; fundamenta altae _Carthaginis_ locare, Aen. 4, 266; _urbs_ a fundamentis diruta, Liv. 42, 63, 11; fodere fundamenta _delubro_, Plin. 28, 2, 4; _pietas_ fundamentum est omnium _virtutum_, Planc. 29; fundamentum _iustitiae_ est fides, Off. 1, 7, 23; narratio est fundamentum _constituendae fidei_, Part. 9, 31; fundamentum _eloquentiae_, De Or. 3, 151; fundamentum _philosophiae_, Div. 2, 1, 2; initium ac fundamentum _defensionis_, Clu. 10, 30; quod fundamentum huius _quaestionis_ est, id videtis, N. I, 44; fundamentum horum _criminum_, Cael. 13, 30; disciplina nixa fundamento _veritatis_, Gell. 14, 1, 20; fundamentum et causa _imperii_, Sen. Ep. 87, 41; fundamenta _libertatis_, Balb. 13, 31; fundamentum _consulatus_ tui, Pis. 4, 9; senectus quae fundamentis _adolescentiae_ constituta est, C. 18, 62; fundamenta _pacis_ ieci, Phil. 1, 1, 1; fundamentum _domus novae_ iacere, Suet. Cal. 22; _villa_ a fundamentis inchoata, Suet. Caes. 46. Incitamentum is nearly always followed by a genitive or a gerundive construction expressing the object toward which a thing or circumstance is an inducement. The noun is used most frequently in Tacitus: hoc maximum et _periculorum_ incitamentum est et _laborum_, Arch. 23; uxor, quae incitamentum _mortis_ fuit, Tac. A. 6, 29; incitamenta _irarum_, Tac. A. 1, 55; incitamenta _victoriae_, Tac. Agr. 32; incitamentum _ad_ honeste _moriendum_, Curt. 9, 5, 4; incitamentum _fortitudinis_, Tac. G. 7, 9; incitamentum _cupidinis_, Tac. A. 6, 1, 10; incitamenta _belli_, Tac. A. 12, 34, 2; est magna illa eloquentia alumna licentiae, comes seditionum, _effrenati populi_ incitamentum, Tac. D. 40, 11. In the last example the genitive is a real objective genitive, while the participle limiting it expresses the result of incitement expressed by the genitives in the other examples.