Rex novi operis molem orsus, in adversum ventum non latere, sed recta fronte direxit; ea cetera opera velut sub ipsa latentia tuebatur: latitudinem quoque aggeri adiecit, ut turres in medio excitatae procul teli iactu abessent.
The king, on beginning to build a new causeway, made its front (instead of its side) face directly into the unfavourable wind. Thus the front protected the rest of the works, which were hidden, as it were, behind it; he also made the causeway wider, in order that the towers erected on the middle of it might be far out of range of a weapon.
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