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turris , is (acc. turrim and turrem; abl. turri and turre; v. Neue, Formenl. I. 196 sqq.), f., = τύρρις.
I. Lit.
B. In partic., a military tower, for defence of a camp or the walls of a city: “turrim in praecipiti stantem Adgressi ferro,Verg. A. 2, 460; Caes. B. G. 5, 40; 6, 29; id. B. C. 3, 9; Cic. Prov. Cons. 2, 4; “for attack in a siege,Caes. B. G. 3, 21; Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10; Liv. 32, 17, 17; “on the backs of elephants,id. 37, 40, 4; “on a ship,id. 37, 24, 6 et saep.—
II. Transf.
A. For any high building, a castle, palace, citadel: “pauperum tabernas Regumque turres,Hor. C. 1, 4, 14; so, “regia,Ov. M. 8, 14: “Maecenatiana,Suet. Ner 38: “maris vastum prospectet turribus aequor,Tib. 1, 7, 19.—
B. A dove-cot built in the form of a tower, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 6; Ov. P. 1, 6, 51.—
C. A kind of battlearray when the troops were arranged in a square, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. serra, p. 344 Müll.; cf. Gell. 10, 9, 1.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (15):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 15.4.10
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 5.40
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 3.21
    • Cicero, On the Consular Provinces, 2.4
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.460
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.14
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.9
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 24.6
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 32, 17.17
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 37, 40.4
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.20
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1.14
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 10.9.1
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.6
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