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disturbed 3
disturbing 1
disunited 4
ditch 40
ditches 30
diverse 1
diversion 1
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41 today
40 both
40 called
40 ditch
40 find
40 keep
40 like
Niccolò Machiavelli
On the Art of War

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1 1| handle the sword, dig a ditch, carry a load, and are without 2 2| avoiding blows, jumping a ditch and climbing over an embankment. 3 5| girded on the rear side by a ditch, and filling it with tow, 4 5| for I said that he dug a ditch and filled it with tow, 5 5| had to contend with the ditch and the fire. Hanno made 6 5| made the fire without a ditch, and as he wanted to pass 7 5| impeded him even without the ditch. Do you not know that Nabidus, 8 5| which is to dig a large ditch, difficult to cross, and 9 5| such a result, over the ditch, and without any impediment, 10 6| between the quarters and the ditch (moat). And if you count 11 6| between the quarters and the ditch, and there remains in each 12 6| especially those which face the ditch.~It remains for us now to 13 6| those (quarters) to the ditch, I would place a row of 14 6| wide. The space between the ditch and the quarters, which 15 6| in front of it they dug a ditch and ordinarily six arm lengths 16 6| would, however, dig the ditch and embankment, not less 17 6| would have a half circle ditch, from which the artillery 18 7| hundred arm lengths. The ditch inside ought to be at least 19 7| excavated in making the ditch is thrown toward the city, 20 7| part of the base of the ditch, and extends again as much 21 7| making the depth of the ditch greater. In the base of 22 7| greater. In the base of the ditch, every two hundred arm lengths, 23 7| behind the wall enclosing the ditch; for to defend the wall 24 7| since it does not find a ditch which receives and hides 25 7| doubling the depth of the ditch, so that it is not possible 26 7| that holds you back and a ditch which will impede you, and 27 7| and from the wall of the ditch, in safety, the enemy artillery 28 7| for you, is to fill up the ditch: which is very difficult, 29 7| If, in addition to the ditch inside, there should be 30 7| that if you want to dig one ditch only, it is better inside 31 7| Would you have water in the ditch, or would you leave them 32 7| each part separated by a ditch, and with water between 33 7| that if the walls and the ditch were lost, the entire fortress 34 7| pilasters in the middle of the ditch.~BATTISTA: You have said 35 7| straight line, and there is a ditch with a bridge over it from 36 7| artillery is battering, to dig a ditch inside the wall that is 37 7| makes embankments and the ditch deeper: and you must do 38 7| that if the wall falls, the ditch will be excavated at least 39 7| lengths deep. While this ditch is being excavated, it is 40 7| on a plain, and make the ditch which girds your City so


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