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30 being adept at picking up stones with both beak and claw •^^^0119 KOfiiôvai Kol TM tTTOfiarc Kal tok owî, Koi i/xlSdWovaiv eV Tov Kepafiov}^'^ The crow also employs its mandibles with great skill, being able to gouge out the eyes, even of the larger animals, such as the ass and the bull: d/ioVe toIi ^d>oi
31 had only two, and they were manipulated like the mandibles of a crow; hence the figure. The Tyrian corvus was fashioned as a defensive engine, corvique et alia tuendis urbibus excogitata praeparaban- ^jjj.139 fQj. grasping and seizing. The corvus of Duilius, unlike that of the Tyrians, was distinctly offensive. Its end was tipped with iron sharp- ened to a point, and shaped like a baker's pestle, as Poly- bius states : iirl he rov ireparo^ avrov (aruXov) •jrpoaijp/jLoa-To tnSrjpovv ohv virepov airwâ-fievov}*^ The comparison with the pestle shows that the instrument is likened to a crow with closed mandibles, to facilitate piercing. It was intended, as Polybius goes on to say, to hold the ships together by forcing its way through the deck, not by grappling : ore Se raw aavlari t&v KaTaarpcofiaTcov ip.ira'yevTei oi KopaKes ofiov avvSiâ-aiev to? vaik.^*^ As the corvus of Duilius resembled that of the Tyrians in name only and not in purpose or construction, Polybius is correct in his statement with regard to Duilius's invention of a crow. Vitruvius speaks of a corvus demolitor,^*^ which evidently is identical with an engine that Vegetius describes, although the latter does not use the term corvus. The two descrip- tions are quite similar. Vegetius comments as follows trabem, quae adunco praefigitur ferro et falx vocatur ab eo, quod incurva est, ut de muro extrahat lapides.-'** Polybius's words are somewhat analogous : eirl he rov irepaTo^ avrov (trrtiXov) irpoaripfioaTo
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