Ipse, tertia vigilia castris motis, circa lucis ortum superat angustias caesaque materia cratibus et pluteis faciundis, ut qui turres admoverent extra teli iactum essent, urbem obsidere coepit.
Alexander himself broke camp in the third watch, passed through the narrows about daybreak, and after cutting timber for making hurdles and mantlets, so that men bringing up siege-towers should be out of reach of missiles, began the siege of the city.
final_alignments\Quintus_Curtius_Alexander_Book5.json