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|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[tower]], esp. such as were attached to the walls of a city, <span class="bibl">Il.7.219</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>242</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.74</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Th.2.17</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Plb.5.99.9</span>, etc.: in pl., [[city walls]] or [[ramparts with their towers]], <span class="bibl">Il.7.338</span>, <span class="bibl">437</span>; in sg., ἧντ' ἐπὶ πύργῳ <span class="bibl">3.153</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">22.447</span>; πόλιος ἣν πέρι πύργος ὑψηλός <span class="bibl">Od.6.262</span>; πέριξ δὲ πύργος εἶχ' ἔτι πτόλιν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>1209</span>; πύργους ἐπὶ τῶν γεφυρῶν ἐπιστῆσαι <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Criti.</span>116a</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> [[movable tower]] for storming towns, <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>6.1.53</span>, <span class="bibl">6.2.18</span>; π. ὑπότροχοι <span class="bibl">Onos. 42.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> [[tower]] on the back of war-elephants, <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Tact.</span>2.4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">d</span> <b class="b3">Ζανὸς π</b>., Pythag. name for the central fire of the universe, <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Fr.</span>204</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> metaph., [[tower of defence]], <b class="b3">τοῖος . . σφιν π. ἀπώλεο</b>, of Ajax, <span class="bibl">Od.11.556</span>; ἄνδρες πόλιος π. ἀρεύϊος Alc.<span class="title">Supp.</span>1a.10; παῖς ἄρσην πατέρ' ἔχει π. μέγαν <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Alc.</span>311</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Med.</span>390</span>; ἅπας μοι π. Ἑλλήνων πατρίς <span class="title">Trag.Adesp.</span>392; <b class="b3">θανάτων δ' ἐμᾷ χώρᾳ π. ἀνέστα</b> [[a tower of defence from]] deaths, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1201</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[the part of a house]] (prob. a separate building) [[in which the women lived and worked]], αἱ ἄλλαι θεράπαιναι ἐν τῷ π. ἦσαν, οὗπερ διαιτῶνται <span class="bibl">D.47.56</span>; esp. if unmarried, as Hero in her [[tower]], <span class="bibl">Musae.32</span>,<span class="bibl">187</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Philostr.Jun.<span class="title">Im.</span>1</span>; of the [[workman's hut]] of Timon the misanthrope (which also became his tomb, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Tim.</span>42</span>), <span class="bibl">Paus.1.30.4</span>, cf. <span class="title">AP</span> 7.402 (Antip.); [[outbuildings]], esp. if used in industry, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Is.</span>5.2</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Mi.</span>4.8</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PStrassb.</span>110.6</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1194.9</span> (ii B.C.), <span class="bibl">650.8</span> (i A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>243.15</span> (i A.D.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Marc.</span>12.1</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ev.Luc.</span>14.28</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PGiss.</span>67.16</span> (ii A.D.), <span class="title">IG</span>22.2776.65 (ii A.D.); π. ἐν ᾧ βαφεῖον καὶ ἕτερα χρηστήρια <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PLond.</span>2.371.3</span> (i A.D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">part of an army drawn up in close order, column</b>, <span class="bibl">Il.4.334</span>,<span class="bibl">347</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> at Teos, a division of the people, <span class="title">CIG</span>3064,3081, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[dice-box]], AP9.482.24 (Agath.); cf. Lat. [[pyrgus]].</span>