Posteaquam non habuerunt ad demolitionem ferramenta, sumpserunt tignum idque manibus sustinentes capiteque eius summum murum continenter pulsantes summos lapidum ordines deiciebant, et ita gradatim ex ordine totam communitionem dissipaverunt.
Since they lacked iron tools for this purpose, they took a beam, and raising it by manual labour, they swung the end repeatedly against the top of the wall and brought down the top courses of the masonry. Thus they broke up the whole fortification little by little and in order.
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