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| 18 | 166 | Many of the bowmen had View more quotes about apparently">apparently received orders to seal off the walkway, as they could, this penning the people below between the water and the wall, holding them there, like verr for the slaughter. |
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| 18 | 163 | I detailed men to assist, as they could, shielding them, women and children running toward the walkway. |
| 18 | 164 | There now seemed hundreds of bowmen at the height of the wall. |
| 18 | 165 | The nearer portions of the walkway seemed to be growing quarrels like grass. |
| 18 | 166 | Many of the bowmen had apparently received orders to seal off the walkway, as they could, this penning the people below between the water and the wall, holding them there, like verr for the slaughter. |
| 18 | 167 | I crouched down behind the shield wall. |
| 18 | 168 | "Take the commander, shielded," I said, "to the piers". |
| 18 | 169 | "I will remain here," said Aemilianus. |