. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. t into the turricula, \through which they fell on to the jboard, after acquiring additional rota-tion in their descent down its gradu-ated sides. But this opinion is to beregarded as one collected from infer-ential reasoning, rather than provedbv positive evidence. TURRIGER. Bearing Turritus. TURRI
. The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary and Greek lexicon; forming a glossary of all the words representing visible objects connected with the arts, manufactures, and every-day life of the Greeks and Romans, with representations of nearly two thousand objects from the antique. t into the turricula, \through which they fell on to the jboard, after acquiring additional rota-tion in their descent down its gradu-ated sides. But this opinion is to beregarded as one collected from infer-ential reasoning, rather than provedbv positive evidence. TURRIGER. Bearing Turritus. TURRIS (rvpais, irvpyos). In ageneral sense, any very lofty building jor pile of buildings; whence the term |is applied indiscriminately to objectsof civil or military architecture, apalatial residence, or a fortified place, j Liv. xxxiii. 48. Sail. Jag. 103. SuetNero, 38. Ov. A. Am. iii. 416. 2. A tower of fortification, disposedat intervals in the walls of a city,stationary camp, or any other fortifiedenclosure. (Cic. Cass. Liv. &c.)They were built both round andsquare, were run up to several storieshigh, with turrets (pinna?) on the top,loop-holes (fenestra?) on the face, andfrequently a sally-port (fornix) be-low, and in general were situatedat short distances from one another,. so that an attacking party would beexposed to a discharge of missiles onboth flanks at the same illustration exhibits three towers,two round and one square, now stand-ing by the side of the Porta Asinaria,in the walls of Rome. 3. Turris mobilis, or moveable tower used in sieges,made of wood, covered with iron,raw hides, or stuffed mattresses, tobreak the force of the blows directedagainst it, and placed upon wheels,by means of which it could be drivenclose up to the enemys walls. Itwas divided into several stories orplatforms (tabulata), the lower onecontaining the battering-ram (aries),the upper ones, various kinds of draw-bridges and other contrivances forraising and lowering t
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