Decimo itaque postquam pugnari coeptum est die, cum spes nostrorum inferior cuncta maerore compleret, transferri placuerat molem arietis magnam, quam Persae quondam, Antiochia pulsibus eius excisa, relatam reliquerant apud Carras.
Therefore on the tenth day after the beginning of the siege, when the waning hope of our men was causing general dejection, it was decided to bring into action a ram of great size, which the Persians, after formerly using it to raze Antioch, had brought back and left at Carrae.
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