Verum unus aries residuis celsior, umectis taurinis copertus exuviis, ideoque minus casus flammeos pertimescens aut tela, antegressus omnes erepsit nisibus magnis ad murum, vastoque acumine coagmenta lapidum fodiens, turrim laxatam evertit.
However, one ram, higher than the rest, which was covered with wet bulls hide and therefore less exposed to danger from fire or darts, having gone ahead of all the others, made its way with mighty efforts to the wall. There, digging into the joints of the stones with its huge beak, it weakened a tower and overthrew it.
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