A capite autem ad imam calcem tigni contenti fuerunt funes iii crassitudine digitorum viii, ita religati, quemadmodum navis a puppi ad proram continentur, eique funes praecinctura e transversis erant religati habentes inter se palmipedalia spatia.
From the head to the butt of the ram three ropes were stretched 6 inches thick bound to the ends of the ram in the same way as ships are held together from the stern to the bows, and these ropes were wound round obliquely, at intervals of 15 inches by another rope which encircled them.
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