Is ita constitutis, qua machina accessura erat, ea regione murum pertudit et iussit omnes publice et privatim quod quisque habuisset aquae, stercoris, luti per eam fenestram per canales progredientes effundere ante murum.
This was settled. He made a breach in the ramparts where the machine was to come, and ordered everyone publicly and in private to collect water, sewage and mud and, coming forth, to pour it along channels through the breach in front of the rampart.
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