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242.22. stimulis: cf. 236 7-9.—scrobis: cf. 235 28 ff. 242.23.

pilis muralibus: large darts perhaps hurled by the engines. 242.26.

superioribus: on the higher ground to the north and south (see next chapter). 242.29.

fossas: this word should probably be fossam. It seems to refer to the ditch twenty feet wide; see 234 26 ff. and plan.—explent: coordinate with proferunt.


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