Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fala

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FALA. A wooden tower of several stories high, employed in sieges, but the characteristic properties of which are unknown. Festus, s. v. Ennius ap. Non. s. v. p. 114.

2. A wooden tower of similar nature, erected occasionally in the circus, upon the vacant part of the arena, between the barrier (spina) and circumference (euripus), when the military spectacle of a sham fight (decursio) was to be exhibited. Juv. vi. 589. Non. l. c. Serv. ad Virg. Aen. ix. 705.