Civil Wars
Book, Chap. 1 I, 28| disposed here and there, on the wall and turrets, some light-armed
2 I, 29| who had been posted on the wall to guard it, were called
3 I, 42| not to fortify it with a wall, which must rise high, and
4 I, 47| being beaten back to the wall, and some being driven by
5 I, 82| to surround them with a wall and trench, that he might
6 II, 2 | works, the height of the wall and towers, and the multitude
7 II, 5 | extending their hands from the wall to the heavens, or were
8 II, 8 | turret of brick under the wall for a fort and place of
9 II, 9 | by the outer face of the wall, that nothing should project
10 II, 9 | beyond the outside of the wall, that they might serve to
11 II, 10| to the enemy's tower and wall. This was the form of it:
12 II, 10| might be thrown from the wall. Over the tiles hides are
13 II, 11| and pitching them from the wall, roll them down on the musculus.
14 II, 11| rolled them down from the wall on the musculus. As soon
15 II, 11| were beaten off from the wall and turrets; nor was a fair
16 II, 15| the right and left by the wall, and in the front by the
17 II, 15| sallies were left in the wall in such places as they thought
18 II, 16| could be surrounded with a wall and turrets on every part
19 II, 19| guards and sentinels on the wall and in the turrets, and
20 II, 22| demolished, a great part of their wall having given way, and despairing
21 II, 25| Varus's camp, joining the wall and town, at the gate called
22 III, 22| a stone thrown from the wall of the town which was commanded
Commentaries on the Gallic War
Book, Chap. 23 I, 8 | eighteen English] miles a wall, to the height of sixteen
24 I, 38| s bank on either side. A wall thrown around it makes a
25 II, 6 | begun to be cast against the wall on all sides, and the wall
26 II, 6 | wall on all sides, and the wall has been stripped of its
27 II, 6 | gates and undermine the wall: which was easily effected
28 II, 6 | maintain his position upon the wall. When night had put an end
29 II, 12| ditch and the height of the wall, though few were defending
30 II, 13| boys and the women from the wall, with outstretched hands,
31 II, 17| present a fortification like a wall, through which it was not
32 II, 29| with a very lofty double wall: besides, they had placed
33 II, 30| mock the Romans from their wall, and to taunt them with
34 II, 32| battering-ram should touch the wall; but that there was no condition
35 II, 32| quantity of their arms from the wall into the trench that was
36 II, 32| equalled the top of the wall and the rampart, and nevertheless
37 VI, 35| garrison that not even the wall can be manned, nor dare
38 VII, 8 | by the Cevennes as by a wall, and the paths at this season
39 VII, 22| furnished, more over, the whole wall on every side with turrets,
40 VII, 23| In this manner the whole wall is consolidated, until the
41 VII, 23| the regular height of the wall be completed. This work,
42 VII, 24| raised along the entire wall, and a sally was made from
43 VII, 24| torches and dry wood from the wall on the mound, others were
44 VII, 28| were dislodged from the wall and towers, and drew up,
45 VII, 28| themselves along the entire wall in every direction, fearing
46 VII, 46| 46 The town wall was 1200 paces distant from
47 VII, 46| Gauls had previously built a wall six feet high, made of large
48 VII, 46| the hill, as far as the wall of the town, with their
49 VII, 47| until they drew nigh to the wall of the town and the gates.
50 VII, 47| clothes and silver over the wall, and bending over as far
51 VII, 47| allow any one to mount the wall before him, finding three
52 VII, 47| raised up by them, scaled the wall. He himself, in turn, taking
53 VII, 47| one drew them up to the wall. ~
54 VII, 48| came he stood beneath the wall, and increased the number
55 VII, 50| those who had scaled the wall with him, being surrounded
56 VII, 50| slain, were cast from the wall. Marcus Petreius, a centurion
57 VII, 52| of the mountain, nor the wall of the town could retard
58 VII, 69| all the space under the wall, comprising a part of the
59 VII, 69| front a trench and a stone wall six feet high. The circuit
60 VII, 70| the ditch and climb the wall. Caesar orders the legions
61 VII, 72| he raised a rampart and wall twelve feet high; to this
62 VIII, 41| should be on a level with the wall (for that could not be effected
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