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12 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 anreKavKiê to irpoe'xpv rr)
. 13 peated attacks. The similarity was too obvious to escape the notice of men whose boyhood had been spent in grazing districts. In their everyday economy, the butting with the formidable brow had been very much in evidence. In the excitement of the siege a soldier, struck by the likeness, called the device «/sto's and its name was fixed forever. To prevent the device from being set on fire or shattered, as in the case mentioned by Thucydides, it was encased at the ifiôX-^ with iron. This, to increase its effectiveness, was sharpened. The name icpio'i, assisted by the term Ke
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Page 33 and 34: 23 êX&vai eXa^paC ' light tortoise
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Page 37 and 38: 27 obrutis eius oculis, infestantia
Page 39 and 40: 29 ' walking ' is very apropos for
Page 41 and 42: 31 had only two, and they were mani
Page 43 and 44: 33 GRUS, Gk. ye'pavoi, Crane; trans
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Page 47 and 48: 37 tleinde latior procedit et adver
Page 49 and 50: 39 Vergil uses the adjective arbore
Page 51 and 52: 41 It is quite possible that it is
Page 53 and 54: 43 Analogous to this use of equuleu
Page 55 and 56: 45 Pliny informs us that Cato, in o
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