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1 3| me when I lay siege to a town, where he may injure me
2 5| fire to part of his own town in order to stop the passage
3 6| make yourself secure of a town when you have doubts of
4 6| infirm ones, occupied the town. Publius Valerius, fearful
5 6| at a Church outside the town, and when all the public
6 7| erect bastions outside the town you have to defend, for
7 7| It is to be noted that a town which has its ditches outside
8 7| But let us pass into the town. I do not want to waste
9 7| destroyed. Whoever defends a town ought to see to it that
10 7| stay at home, and leave the town free to the young and the
11 7| of being able to occupy a town, than to know the inhabitants
12 7| they have entered into a town, been repulsed or slain.
13 7| Calvinus was besieging a town, he undertook habitually
14 7| inside, have occupied the town. Chimon, the Athenian, one
15 7| Temple that was outside the town, whence, when the townspeople
16 7| succor it, they left the town to the enemy to plunder.
17 7| who then surrendered the town to him. The ancient Captains
18 7| diverted rivers to take a town, even though they then did
19 7| knowledge have taken the town. Some have blocked the gate
20 7| drawing them outside the town and distant from it, by
21 7| their midst, and take the town from them. They deceive
22 7| friends who lived inside a town, and not wanting to trust
23 7| except by one who leaves the town under the guise of a fugitive,
24 7| opportunity to jump into the town.~But let us come to talk
25 7| is excavated toward the town, which makes embankments
26 7| which came out inside the town, and through which they
27 7| find a knoll within the town that you defend, you cannot
28 7| their encampment or in a town, although inferior in strength,
29 7| that penalty which, in this town, custom decrees for those
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