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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Turbo

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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. 

TURBO (βέμβιξ, ῥόμβος, στρόμβος). A boy's whipping-top (Virg. Aen. vii. 378. Tibull. i. 5. 3.), similar to those now in use.

2. The whorl or whirl of a spindle (Catull. 64. 315. Auct. Consol. ad Liv. 164.), technically termed VERTICILLUM; which see.

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