trabs fabre teres atque, erasis undique nodis, navali similis malo, praefixa gerebat uncae tela manus; ea celso ex aggere muri bellantes curvi rapiebat in aera ferri unguibus et mediam revocata ferebat in urbem.
A spar like a ships mast, skilfully rounded and with all its knots planed away, carried an iron-clawed grapnel at its extremity; and this spar, when let down from the height of the wall, caught up the attackers with its iron claws, and, when it was hauled back, landed them within the city.
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