Quibus autem locis fossa non potuerat fieri, intra murum barathrum amplissima longitudine et amplitudine uti piscinam fecerunt contra eum locum, qua specus agebantur, eamque e puteis et e portu impleverunt.
But where inside the wall a ditch could not be made, they dug a moat, like a fish-pond, of great length and depth, over against the quarter where the tunnels were being made, and filled it from the wells and from the harbour.
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