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Aulus Hirtius
Commentary on the Alexandrian War
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2
Nor were the
Alexandrians
remiss
on their
side
, or less
active
in the
conduct
of their
affairs
. For they had
sent
deputies
and
commissioners
into all
parts
, where the
powers
and
territories
of
Egypt
extend
, to
levy
troops
. They had
carried
vast
quantities
of
darts
and
engines
into the
town
, and
drawn
together an
innumerable
multitude
of
soldiers
. Nevertheless
workshops
were
established
in every
part
of the
city
, for the
making
of
arms
. They
enlisted
all the
slaves
that were of
age
; and the
richer
citizens
supplied
them with
food
and
pay
. By a
judicious
disposition
of this
multitude
, they
guarded
the
fortifications
in the
remoter
parts
of the
town
; while they
quartered
the
veteran
cohorts
, which were
exempted
from all other
service
, in the
squares
and
open
places
; that on whatever
side
an
attack
should be made, they might be at
hand
to
give
relief
, and
march
fresh
to the
charge
. They
shut
up all the
avenues
and
passes
by a
triple
wall
built
of
square
stones
, and
carried
to the
height
of forty
feet
. They
defended
the
lower
parts
of the
town
by very
high
towers
of
ten
stories
: besides which, they had
likewise
contrived
a
kind
of
moving
towers
, which
consisted
of the same
number
of
stories
, and which
being
fitted
with
ropes
and
wheels
, could, by
means
of
horses
, as the
streets
of
Alexandria
were
quite
even and
level
, be
conveyed
wherever their
service
was
necessary
.
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