muralis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

mūrālis, e, adj. [murus],

of or belonging to a wall, wall-, mural (class.): muralis herba, the pellitory of the wall, parietary , Plin. 21, 30, 104, § 176: pila, used in fighting from walls , Caes. B. G. 5, 39: tormentum, for battering walls , Verg. A. 12, 921: fossa, under the walls , Sil. 8, 555: falces, hooks for pulling down walls , Caes. B. G. 3, 14: corona, a mural crown , given as a reward to him who first scaled the enemy's walls, Liv. 23, 18; also, corona, the crown on the head of Cybele, adorned with walls and towers , Lucr. 2, 606.

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