Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pyrgus

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. 

PYR'GUS. (Sidon. Ep. viii. 12.) A word coined from the Greek πύργος, though not occurring with the same identical signification in that language, and for which the genuine Latin word is TURRICULA, which see.