Sic instructas quadriremes ad urbem agebant; inde missilia in propugnantes ingerebantur tuto, quia proris miles tegebatur.
These four-bankers, thus equipped, they rowed up to the city; from them missiles were showered upon the defenders with safety, since the soldiers were protected by the prows.
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