Figurative uses of animal names in Latin and their ... - mura di tutti

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day, accounts of machines that received definite names sub-
sequent to the time of their introduction.
No mention is made in Greek literature of the formal
application of the battering principle before Thucydides's
description of the battle of Plataea. Here, however, the
device masqueraded under the title e/i/3o\j;. It was entirely
of wood, for it split and was rendered useless on striking the
wall : 17 Se {mX'^^V) P^M'V
efivhrTova-a anreKavKi^e to irpoe'xpv
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