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7. Perseus ubi adesse Aetolos audivit, omissa obsidione urbis, quam oppugnabat, depopulatus tantum agros Amphilochia excessit atque in Macedoniam redit. [2] et Aetolos inde avocavit populatio maritumae orae. Pleuratus, Illyriorum rex, cum sexaginta lembis Corinthium sinum invectus adiunctis Achaeorum quae Patris erant navibus marituma Aetoliae vastabat. [3] adversus quos mille Aetoli missi, quacumque se classis circumegerat per litorum amfractus, brevioribus semitis occurrebant. [4] et Romani ad Ambraciam pluribus locis quatiendo arietibus muros aliquantum urbis nudaverant, nec tamen penetrare in urbem poterant: [5] nam et pari celeritate novus pro diruto murus obiciebatur, et armati ruinis superstantes instar munimenti erant. [6] itaque cum aperta vi parum procederet consuli res, cuniculum occultum vineis ante contecto loco agere instituit; et aliquamdiu, cum dies noctesque in opere essent, non solum sub terra fodientes sed egerentes etiam humum fefellere hostem. [7] [p. 276] cumulus repente terrae eminens 1index operis oppidanis fuit, pavidique, ne iam subrutis muris facta in urbem via esset, fossam intra murum e regione eius operis, quod vineis contectum erat, ducere instituunt. [8] cuius ubi ad tantam altitudinem, quantae esse solum infimum cuniculi poterat, pervenerunt, silentio facto pluribus locis aure admota sonitum fodientium captabant. [9] quem ubi acceperunt, aperiunt rectam in cuniculum viam. nec fuit magni operis: momento enim ad inane suspenso furculis ab hostibus muro pervenerunt. [10] ibi commissis operibus, cum e fossa in cuniculum pateret iter, primo ipsis ferramentis, quibus in opere usi erant, deinde celeriter armati etiam subeuntes occultam sub terra ediderunt pugnam; segnior deinde ea facta est intersaepientibus cuniculum, ubi vellent, nunc ciliciis praetentis nunc foribus raptim obiectis. [11] [p. 277] nova etiam haud magni operis adversus eos, qui in cuniculo erant, 2excogitata res. dolium a fundo pertusum, qua fistula modica inseri posset, et ferream fistulam operculumque dolii ferreum, et ipsum pluribus locis perforatum, fecerunt. hoc tenui pluma completum dolium ore in cuniculum verso posuerunt. [12] per operculi foramina praelongae hastae, quas sarisas vocant, ad summovendos hostes eminebant. scintillam levem ignis inditam plumae folle fabrili ad caput fistulae imposito flando accenderunt. [13] inde non solum magna vis fumi sed acrior etiam foedo quodam nidore ex adusta pluma cum totum cuniculum complesset, vix durare quisquam intus poterat.

1 a. u. 565.

2 a. Ch. 189.

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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Muri
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    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Sinus Corinlbiacus
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Sarisae
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita, Index, Cuniculi
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    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CILIC´IUM
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), CUNI´CULUS
    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), EXE´RCITUS
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