Turris, huius turris, f. g. Cæs. Atower, or any thing made lyke to it.Aerata turris. Clau. Aeria. Vir. Ahenea. Hor, Celsa. Hor. Alta.Cic. Contabulata. Liu.Ardua.Ouid. Excelsa. Sil. Caua. Vir. Valida. Lucret. Confringere turres. Lucan. Locus munitus turribus. Ci. Quassæ nutant turres. Lucan. Percussæ de cœlo turres, Vide PERCVTIO.Stabilire quassas turres. Sen. Fiunt etiam turres ambulatoriæ de quibus Veget.Tintber towers in warre made to goe or temoue from place to place on wheeles.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
turris, is (acc. turrim and turrem; abl. turri and turre; v. Neue, Formenl. I. 196 sqq.), f., = tu/rris. I.Lit.A. 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.—B. In partic., a military tower, for defence of a camp or the walls of a city: turrim in praecipiti stantem Adgressi ferro, Verg. A. 2, 460; Caes. B. G. 5, 40; 6, 29; id. B. C. 3, 9; Cic. Prov. Cons. 2, 4; for attack in a siege, Caes. B. G. 3, 21; Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 10; Liv. 32, 17, 17; on the backs of elephants, id. 37, 40, 4; on a ship, id. 37, 24, 6 et saep.—II.Transf.A. 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.—B.A dove-cot built in the form of a tower, Varr. R. R. 3, 3, 6; Ov. P. 1, 6, 51.—C.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.