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8. obsidio deinde per paucos dies magis quam [p. 22] oppugnatio fuit, dum volnus ducis curaretur. per1 quod tempus ut quies certaminum erat ita ab apparatu operum ac munitionum nihil cessatum. [2] itaque acrius de integro coortum est bellum, pluribusque partibus, vix accipientibus quibusdam opera locis, vineae coeptae agi admoverique aries. [3] abundabat multitudine hominum Poenus; ad centum quinquaginta milia habuisse in armis satis creditur; [4] oppidani ad omnia tuenda atque obeunda multifariam distineri coepti,2 non sufficiebant. [5] itaque iam feriebantur arietibus muri, quassataeque multae partes erant; una continentibus ruinis nudaverat urbem: tres deinceps turres quantumque inter eas muri erat cum fragore ingenti prociderunt.3 [6] captum oppidum ea ruina crediderant Poeni, qua, velut si pariter utrosque murus4 texisset, ita utrimque in pugnam procursum est. [7] nihil tumultuariae pugnae simile erat, quales in oppugnationibus urbium per occasionem partis alterius conseri5 solent, sed iustae acies velut patenti campo inter ruinas muri tectaque urbis modico distantia intervallo constiterant. [8] hinc spes, hinc desperatio animos inritat, Poeno cepisse iam se urbem, si paulum adnitatur, credente, Saguntinis pro nudata moenibus patria corpora opponentibus nec ullo pedem referente, ne in relictum a se locum hostem immitteret. [9] itaque quo acrius et confertim magis [p. 24] utrimque pugnabant,6 eo plures volnerabantur nullo7 inter arma corporaque vano intercidente telo. [10] phalarica8 erat Saguntinis missile telum hastili abiegno9 et cetera10 tereti praeterquam ad extremum unde ferrum exstabat; id, sicut in pilo, quadratum stuppa circumligabant linebantque11 pice; [11] ferrum autem tres longum habebat pedes, ut cum armis transfigere corpus posset. sed id maxime, etiam si haesisset in scuto nec penetrasset in corpus, pavorem faciebat, [12?] quod cum medium accensum mitteretur conceptumque ipso motu multo maiorem ignem ferret, arma omitti cogebat nudumque militem ad insequentes ictus praebebat.

1 A.U.C. 535

2 coepti Weissenborn: coepti sunt CM.

3 prociderunt CM: prociderant ς.

4 murus edd.: muros CM.

5 conseri ς: consciri CM.

6 pugnabant (by erasure from oppugnabant) M: pugnabantur C1: pugnabatur C2.

7 A.U.C. 535

8 phalarica C2M2: phalica C: phalaeri M1.

9 abiegno ς: ab ligneo CM.

10 cetera ascensius (1513: cetero CM.

11 timebantque ς: linebanturque (or other corruptions) CM.

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    • E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus, 55
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 31.17
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 31.39
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 31.46
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32, commentary, 32.24
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.17
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.18
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.32
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 33.9
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 34.14
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 34.29
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34, commentary, 34.42
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.4
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 35.5
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 36.23
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 37.31
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 38.7
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38, commentary, 38.8
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40, commentary, 40.8
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42, commentary, 42.64
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 43.23
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 44.26
    • Titus Livius (Livy), Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44, commentary, 44.45
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    • A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), HASTA
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