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Chapters 27–30<br />
Commentary<br />
65), is also not a ground plan or elevation. See also below, 57:1.<br />
Chapters 28–29. Additional Bases for the Scout-Ladder<br />
The bases described here are not found in Apollod. and are apparently<br />
an addition <strong>of</strong> the Anon. Byz. The first with single planks on either side<br />
is depicted on folio 23r.<br />
4 ∑ta litÒn: See above, on 27:15–16.<br />
5 glvss¤dow: For the term see Trapp, Lexikon, s.v.<br />
29:12 texn¤thw: On adaptation by the craftsman see above on 1:9.<br />
13 summetr¤an: See below on 38:19.<br />
14 tre›w diastãseiw: Cf. below, 30:17–18.<br />
Chapter 30. Portable Siege Towers<br />
The portable towers <strong>of</strong> Diades and Charias are described in chaps. 30,<br />
32, and 36; they are also found in Ath. Mech. 10:10–12:10 and Vitruvius<br />
X:13:3ff. The Anon. Byz. has material not found in either <strong>of</strong> his predecessors.<br />
Sackur, Vitruv, 98ff, advanced the theory that he used a now lost<br />
source called by Sackur “Athenaeus Minor.” However, Dain, Tradition,<br />
19, reasonably suggests that: “les ajouts ne sont pas tels que notre auteur<br />
n’ait pu les donner de son propre cru.” Lammert, “Apollodoros,” 331,<br />
concludes that “der Anonymus Byzantinus kannte nur den Athenaeus<br />
Major.” See also Lendle, Texte, 76 n. 103, who characterizes Sackur’s<br />
theory as “unhaltbare.” For discussion <strong>of</strong> the towers <strong>of</strong> Diades and Charias<br />
see Sackur, ibid., 106ff; Lendle, Texte, 71–77; Callebat and Fleury, Vitruve,<br />
242ff; Garlan, Recherches, 226–28; and Fleury, Mécanique, 289–92.<br />
The towers <strong>of</strong> Apollod. are described in chaps. 31, 33–34, 37, and 39,<br />
following the text <strong>of</strong> Apollod. (164:8–167:9 and 173:9–174:7), with the<br />
Anon. Byz. inserting his own mathematical comments in chaps. 35 and<br />
38. For detailed discussion <strong>of</strong> Apollod.’s tower see Lendle, Texte, 77–101,<br />
and Sackur, Vitruv, 26–30. The tower <strong>of</strong> Apollod. is illustrated on folio<br />
26r.<br />
1 Diãdhw . . . ka‹ Xar¤aw: On Alexander’s engineers see RE V:305<br />
(Diades, 2), III:2:2133 (Charias, 11), suppl. VI:26–27, and Schneider,<br />
Athenaios, 57 n. 10:10<br />
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