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                    "description": "turris (noun F) = τύρρις: (acc. turrim and turrem; abl. turri and turre; v. Neue, Formenl. I. 196 sqq.), , = .\n* Lit.\n* In gen., a tower: eā ballistā si pervortam turrim,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 59: apud vetustam turrem, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 761 P.: Dionysius contionari ex turri altā solebat,Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 59: in omni turre,Val. Fl. 1, 14: celsae graviore casu Decidunt turres,Hor. C. 2, 10, 11; cf. altae,id. Epod. 17, 70: Dardanae,id. C. 4, 6, 7: aënea,Ov. Am. 2, 19, 27.\n* Transf.\n* 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.\n* A dove-cot built in the form of a tower, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 6; Ov. P. 1, 6, 51.\n* 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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