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235.11.

loricam, pinnas: see Bk. v. ch. 40. These were to raise higher the defence of the vallum.—cervis: stumps with roots, or trunks with branches, projecting like stags' horns.—ad commissuras, at the joining, i.e. the place where these plutei were fixed in the agger, which would be at their lowest part.


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