pyrgus
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pyrgum Noun: masculine accusative singular of pyrgus
- a little wooden tower on the side of a gaming-board, hollow and having steps inside, through which the dice were thrown upon the board (pure Lat. turricula), Sid. Ep. 8, 12 (in Hor. S. 2, 7, 17, called phimus; v. phimus).
~us, turris
lupus ‥ nobiles comites ‥ in ipsis valvis pirgis [sic ] ludentes offendens, eos extractis visceribus neci horrende tradidit
posterior pirgus vite tibi sit specularis
[mors ] non timet divites ardentes murice, / quos pirgus extulit fortune tropice
ave mater, ave virgo, / quam in summo vite pirgo / quisquis credit invocat
nobiles ‥ viri procerum militumque hinc et inde circumsidebant, diversis ludis se spaciantes. quidam enim simulatam pugnam bifaria acie pirgis componebant
hic pirgus vel talus,deiz
tablere, or a table of play or game , pirgus
a poynte of a chekyr , pirgus
hic pirrus, A.chekyr
hoc pirrum,the chekyre
hec pirga,the poynt of the chekyre
es flos in cameris, in bellis es quasi virgo, / in fraudis pirgo [gl.: punctus ] sperans tutamina queris
lego ‥ uxori mee quendam lectum integrum depurple baudekyn auri cum omnibus tapetis de airice de pirro lecto illi pertinentibus
~us [v. l. pirgus; gl.: ] in quo coquebantur opacorum [fourn ,furneys ,petiz forn v. l. opacaorum ] genera, lagana, et artocree [v. l. artocrea ]
PYRGUS(πύργος), a tower. 1. The towers used in fortification and in war are spoken of under TURRISand HELEPOLIS2. In Homer πύργος, πυργηδὸν are used of an army in close column (Il. 4.434; 13.152; 15.618). 3. A dice-box, so called from its resemblance to a tower [FRITILLUS]. 4. The territory of the town of Teos was distributed among a certain number of towers (πύργοι), to each of which corresponded a symmory or section of the citizens, compared to the Attic demes (see Boeckh, Corp. Inscr. No. 3064; and the elucidations of Grote, Hist. of Greece, vol. iii. pp. 247, 248). Scheffer, however (de rebus Teiorum, p. 35 ff.), takes them to be regions or quarters of the town of Teos, and Gilbert is disposed to agree with him (Staatsalt. 2.38).
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