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Liber XX
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[10] Et quamquam angustae calles difficiliorem aditum dabant ad muros, aptatique arietes aegre promovebantur, manualium saxorum, sagittarumque metu arcente, nec ballistae tamen cessavere nec scorpiones, illae tela torquentes, hi lapides crebros, qualique simul ardentes pice et bitumine illiti, quorum assiduitate per proclive labentium, machinae 1 haerebant velut altis radicibus fixae, easque malleoli et faces iactae destinatius exurebant.
1 machinae, G; machinarum, V; moles machinarum, Her
Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.
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