I.set, furnished, or fortified with towers, towered, turreted, castled, castellated (mostly poet.).
I. Lit.
A. Moenia, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 47: “muri,” id. P. 3, 4, 105: “castella,” Luc. 6, 39: “puppes,” Verg. A. 8, 693: elephanti, Auct. B. Afr. 30, 2; 41, 2; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22; cf.: “inde boves Lucas turrito corpore tetros,” Lucr. 5, 1301; “called turrita moles,” Sil. 9, 239; cf. “turriger: tempora murali cinctus turrita coronā,” id. 13, 366.—
B. Turrīta , ae, adj. f., tower-crowned, turreted, an epithet of Cybele (v. turriger, II.): “dea,” Prop. 4 (5), 11, 52. “Berecyntia mater,” Verg. A. 6, 785: “mater,” Ov. M. 10, 696; cf. id. F. 4, 219 sq.; Sid. Carm. 5, 13.—
II. Transf., tower-shaped, towering, high, lofly: “scopuli,” Verg. A. 3, 536: “corona,” i. e. a lofly head-dress, Luc. 2, 358: “caput,” Prud. Psych. 183: “vertex,” Hier. Ep. 130, 7.
