Book

 1 4|     yourself on the flanks with ditches, as Caesar did in Gaul.
 2 4|         the making (digging) of ditches, and then covering them
 3 5|        make camp there, and had ditches dug, and some pavilions
 4 6|         the west side along the ditches. From the point, therefore,
 5 6|    hundred arm lengths from the ditches, which would quarter one
 6 6|         the west, following the ditches, in a hundred quarters,
 7 6|        the south, following the ditches, in exactly the same manner,
 8 6| quarters on the side toward the ditches which appeared most convenient
 9 6|    along the embankments of the ditches: and in all the other space
10 6|         the artillery along the ditches on the rear of the camp.~
11 6|       into which to retire, new ditches and embankments are made.
12 6|  quarters very distant from the ditches are better, for they are
13 6|     made the places strong with ditches, ramparts, and embankments,
14 6|       come to attack the moats (ditches). The soldiers ought also
15 6|       outside, distant from the ditches, as is the custom today,
16 6|       protection was within the ditches, which they dug with very
17 7|       easily scaled. If you dig ditches (moats) in front of them
18 7|       to be made high, with the ditches inside and not outside.
19 7|      the faculty of filling the ditches. The wall, therefore, ought
20 7|     Opinions are different; for ditches full of water protect you
21 7|      subterranean) tunnels, the ditches without water make it more
22 7|         that in winter time the ditches ice over, the capture of
23 7|        similar to the walls and ditches, so that similar difficulty
24 7|      make its walls strong, and ditches in the manner we have discussed,
25 7|        room to retire among new ditches and ramparts: for such is
26 7|       that a town which has its ditches outside with its embankments
27 7|      which is not arranged with ditches inside, as we pointed out
28 7|       gives you time to dig the ditches and erect the block houses,
29 7|     form that we gave to inside ditches. But if the wall is weak
30 7|   prepare yourself, digging the ditches inside your City and throughout