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| 17 | 41 | Here charging foes leaping from the wall View more quotes about found">found no footing but only an opening beneath them, half pit, half stairs. |
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| 17 | 38 | The second catapult cast its load, its boulder, into the midst of startled men and had it not been for their smitten bodies, dashed back, cushioning the blow would have torn its way free through the back of the tall, shedlike tower. |
| 17 | 39 | In both cases defenders then climbed to the bridges to meet the foe, driving him back, thrusting him down to the lower level, stopping the ascent at the ladders. |
| 17 | 40 | At the termination of another bridge we had broken away an opening in the walkway, enlarging a gap about stairs. |
| 17 | 41 | Here charging foes leaping from the wall found no footing but only an opening beneath them, half pit, half stairs. |
| 17 | 42 | Men waited below for those who still moved, with axes. |
| 17 | 43 | Another charge, rushing forth from the tower, unable to stop, pushed on by the masses behind them, plunged into flames, where we had heaped bundles of tarred sticks in their path, the sort that on wires and chains, flaming, are hung over the walls at night to illuminate ascending foes. |
| 17 | 44 | At another bridge, Vosk fishermen, from the vicinity of Ar's Station, fought, perhaps men who had merely been trapped in the city when the Cosians had taken their positions, and, at another bridge, huntsmen, from the interior, perhaps similarly detained. |