PYRGUS
PYRGUS (
πύργος), a tower. 1. The
towers used in fortification and in war are spoken of under
TURRIS and
HELEPOLIS 2. In Homer
πύργος, πυργηδὸν are used of an army in close
column (
Il. 4.434;
13.152;
15.618). 3. A dice-box,
so called from its resemblance to a tower [
FRITILLUS]. 4. The territory of the town of Teos was
distributed among a certain number of towers (
πύργοι), to each of which corresponded a symmory or section of
the citizens, compared to the Attic demes (see Boeckh,
Corp.
Inscr. No. 3064; and the elucidations of Grote,
Hist. of
Greece, vol. iii. pp. 247, 248). Scheffer, however (
de rebus Teiorum, p. 35 ff.), takes them to be
regions or quarters of the town of Teos, and Gilbert is disposed to agree
with him (
Staatsalt. 2.38).
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