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Specŭla

（σκοπιά, σκοπή). A watch-tower whence signals were transmitted, and where they were received by the guards stationed there.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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