fala
fala, a movable tower, used in fighting
- I A structure used in sieges, from which missiles were thrown into a city: malos diffindunt, fiunt tabulata falaeque, Enn. ap. Non. 114, 7 (Ann. v. 389 ed. Vahl.).—Prov.: subire sub falas, i. e. to run a great risk for a slight gain, Plaut. Most. 2, 1, 10 (357).—
- II One of the seven wooden pillars in the spina of the Circus, Juv. 6, 590; cf. Anthon's Dict. of Antiq. p. 254, a.
phale tolum
phalam ascendimus, in qua armorum diversa genera speculari licebat
mortem non territant Milonis brachia, / non pugnus pugilis, non phala pharia
cochleam Salomonis per quam olim ascendentes sanctissimi patres nostri penetrarunt phalas regias
~a,scaffold, stage ;‥ somer castel; towre mad only of tymbyr
~a, A.brytage ; hec phalea, turris lignea
hec ~a,a fagot
unum dolium sagittarum longitudinis unius ulne de bono et sicco maeremio et capita pro sagittis illis bene acerata et falas [? l. falcas ] largas habencia
falas largas
In territorio Balgenzaii cuidam pagensi, Taurus nomine, Fala erat, quæ sæpe gregem armentorum relinquens in saltum currebat, etc.
Falsch, qua homo mendax, fraudulentus, sui compendii cum damno aliorum studiosus denotatur, ut author est Schilterus in Glossar. Teuton. Hæc enim satis conveniunt homini, qui gregem sibi commissum dimittit.
cuidam pagensi taurus, nomine Fala, erat, qui, etc.
Hala 1.Locus ubi merces venum exponuntur, in tit. ad marg. Reg. 108. Chartoph. reg. ad Lit. ann. 1375. ch. 64 :
Mandamentum dominorum compotorum mentionem faciens de quadam domo sita in buto vici straminis juxta Falas Paris.Ubi textus habet :
Une place seant au bout de la rue du feure en un angle tenant au degré et aux HalesVide infra Falha, Falla 2. et Phala 2.de la mercerie de Paris.
- FAL-, a movable tower, used in fighting(in the circus), Iu.
FALAor PHALA
1. A wooden structure, of considerable height, used in sieges, from which missiles were thrown (Fest. p. 88, 12; Ennius, ap. Non. p. 114, 7).
2. Phalae are mentioned by Juvenal (6.590) along with the columnae delphinorum in the circus. Hence they are supposed by some writers to be columns on the spina of the circus, supporting the ova, as similar columns supported the dolphins. [See CIRCUSp. 434 b, and the cut on p. 435.] But Servius (ad Verg. A. 9.705) says they were towers on which fights took place, erected between the euripus and the metae; and they were probably movable towers used in the sham fights of the Circus.
[W.S]or Phala. (1) A wooden structure, of considerable height, used in sieges, from which missiles were thrown ( Fest. p. 88Fest., 12; Ennius ap. Non. p. 114Non., 7).
(2) Phalae are mentioned by Juvenal (vi. 590) with the columnae delphinorum in the circus. Hence they are supposed by some writers to be columns on the spina of the circus, supporting the ova, as similar columns supported the dolphins. (See circus.) But Servius (ad Verg. Aen. ix. 705) says they were towers on which fights took place, erected between the euripus and the metae; and they were probably movable towers used in the sham fights of the circus.