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mūrus
masculine noun II declension

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1 wall, especially a city wall
2 bank, mound, dam
3 the rim or side of a pot or boiler
4 the wooden tower of an elephant
5 the head-dress of Cybele, ornamented with towers
6 wall, safeguard, protection, defence

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centumplex murus || ad speciem muri || ad muros subsiste = stay at the walls || altiora murorum || e muris propugno || aliquem in murum effero || armata muris || aeratus murus || brevis murus || ascendo muros || adservo portas murosque || aedificia admota muris || abditi intra muros = holed up within the walls || aliquantum muri discutere || adaequo altitudinem muri || ab eis sublevatus, murum ascendit = having been lifted by them, he climbed the wall || ascendo in equum in murum || adsuetudine succedendi muros || audierunt muros instrui || e muris adventum alicuius prospeculor || e muro me in mare abicio || iacio lapides de muro : || iacio lapides in murum || cinctos resolvo muros || circumdo murum urbi || circumeo urbem muro || agmina muris impingere || adsueti muros defendere || aggerem muro iniungo || ambitum destino muris || aedificia circumiecta muris || aries murum percussit || assessi Capuae muri || e muris adventum imperatoris prospeculor || Alexander dum circumit muros || machinas scalasque ad muros fero || ariete decussi ruebant muri || volvitur ad muros turbidus pulvis || arietum pulsu muros quatit || aut intra muros aut extra || audacia habetur pro muro || accedit muros Romana iuventus = the Roman youth attacks the walls || arx ab urbe muro divisa || aperti incautique muros subiere (= subierunt) || ariete muros pulso or sterno || ad moenia o ad murum scalas erigere = to raise ladders against the walls || ad interiorem murum cuniculis pervenio = to reach the inside of the wall through tunnels || labefacta magna parte muri || avidus muros optatae molior urbis || machinamenta … alia quatiendis muris portabant || aries machina est quae muros frangere militat || circa muros unius urbis haerebat || volvitur ad muros caligine turbidus atra pulvis || circum murum situm in praerupti montis extremo || vulgatior fama est Remum novos transiluisse muros || dant cuneum densaque ad muros mole feruntur || machina multa minax minitatur maxima muris || castra Vari conspicit muro oppidoque coniuncta || aut subruti aut ariete decussi ruebant muri || armorum magna multitudinem de muro in fossam iacta || aestimando altitudinem muri mediocribus scalis superabilem || altitudinem muri quantum proxime coniectura poterat permensus || cetera multitudo e muris adventum imperatoris Romani regisque prospeculabatur || nasus … ita locatus est quasi murus oculis interiectus esse videatur || a lacu Lemano ad montem Iuram milia passuum XVIIII murum perducit = he had a wall 19 thousand steps in lenght traced, from the Lake Geneva lake to the Jura mountain || volgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros || ubi aut spatium inter muros aut imbecillitas materiae postulare videretur || Babylonii alius e muris, alius culmine sui quisque tecti prospectabant, quasi certiora visuri || aggeres faciunt sine fossa: eos quidam vocant muros ut in agro Reatino