Hoc genere operis si fuerit exserto vigore discussum, nudatis defensoribus muris, ideoque solutis obsidiis, civitates munitissimae recluduntur.
If this kind of engine is worked with full vigour, the strongest cities, after their walls have been stripped of defenders, are laid open, and the siege is thus brought to an end.
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