In this way the blows of ballistae and the force of fires will be repelled by them.
Again, when a rampart was being prepared against the wall in front of them, and the place was heaped up with felled trees and works placed there, by shooting at it with the ballistae red-hot iron bolts they set the whole work on fire.
I have now given those symmetrical proportions of ballistae and catapults which I thought most useful.
I shall next explain the symmetrical principles on which scorpiones and ballistae may be constructed, inventions devised for defence against danger, and in the interest of self-preservation.
Ballistae are constructed on varying principles to produce an identical result.
Around and within the city the shouting of men, the thudding of the rams, the creaking of the machines, and the crash of stones cast by the ballistae filled the air.
Some carried ballistae and catapults and stores of darts and stones.
Behind its centre the catapults andballistae were posted, with their strings tightened and their great arms drawn back, ready to hurl their bolts or to discharge their missiles.
The catapults and ballistae were placed two hundred yards from the wall, so as to afford space for the flight of their projectiles.
It has corn enough for a siege; but Alexander's army contains thirty thousand footmen and a troop of horse, besides ballistae and battering-rams which they were setting up when I left.
This abuse brought no response, and fearful lest the courage of the lads might create a bad impression, Azemilcus ended the sport by ordering the ballistae to be discharged.
Even so the range was not appreciably greater than that of a catapult, and in the case of the largest ballistae (ninety-pounder) it was much less.
The catapults threw javelins, balls of fire, and blazing arrows; while the ballistae hurled huge stones, which swept lanes through the ranks of the defenders.
Their ballistae threw stones, weighing a hundred weight, a distance of a quarter of a mile.
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