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turritus

turritus · adj

set

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Where it lives

Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
De Bello Africo 2 · 1.54/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Punica 5 · 0.66/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Aeneid 3 · 0.47/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

turrītus — Lewis & Short

turrītus, a, um, adj.turris,

I set, furnished, or fortified with towers, towered, turreted, castled, castellated (mostly poet.).

I Lit.

A Moenia, Ov. Am. 3, 8, 47: muri, id. P. 3, 4, 105: castella, Luc. 6, 39: puppes, Verg. A. 8, 693: elephanti, Auct. B. Afr. 30, 2; 41, 2; Plin. 8, 7, 7, § 22; cf.: inde boves Lucas turrito corpore tetros, Lucr. 5, 1301; called turrita moles, Sil. 9, 239; cf. turriger: tempora murali cinctus turrita coronā, id. 13, 366.—

B Turrīta, ae, adj. f., tower-crowned, turreted, an epithet of Cybele (v. turriger, II.): dea, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 52. Berecyntia mater, Verg. A. 6, 785: mater, Ov. M. 10, 696; cf. id. F. 4, 219 sq.; Sid. Carm. 5, 13.—

II Transf., tower-shaped, towering, high, lofly: scopuli, Verg. A. 3, 536: corona, i. e. a lofly head-dress, Luc. 2, 358: caput, Prud. Psych. 183: vertex, Hier. Ep. 130, 7.

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