Like a modern field gun, the ballista shot low and directly toward the enemy.
Spendius arranged three great catapults opposite the three principle angles; he placed a ram before every gate, a ballista before every tower, while carroballistas were to move about in the rear.
In his rage Togrul caused a huge wooden ballista to be erected,--so large that it required four hundred men to drag it before the walls.
Zwingle sent Ballista to Farel, who was loudly calling for labourers in Christ's vineyard.
The engine here described by Procopius is the catapult of earlier times; the ballista hurled stones, not arrows.
The description of the ballista and other engines of war in Ammianus Marcellinus, XXII.
Various names were applied to these weapons, the chief of which were the ballista and the catapult.
The ballista hurled stones by means of a twisted cord or a lever; the catapult by darts or arrows could throw a projectile half a mile.
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