Namque ad implicanda navigia quae muros subibant, validos asseres funibus illigaverant, ut, cum tormento asseres promovissent, subito laxatis funibus inicerent.
For in order to catch in their toils the ships which came up close under the walls, they had bound stout beams to ropes, so that when they had thrown forward these beams with a hurling-engine, they might suddenly, while the ropes ran slack, drop the beams upon the ships.
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