A summary of the history, construction and effects in warfare of the projectile-throwing engines of the ancients, with a treatise on the structure, power and management of Turkish and other Oriental bows of mediæval and later times

Note 7 — PART II THE CATAPULT (WITH A SLING)

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Roman History, Book XXIII., Chapter IV.

8 i.e. in the middle of the twisted skein formed of ropes of sinew or hair.

9 The upright and tapering arm of a catapult, with the iron pin on its top for the loop of the sling, is here fancifully likened to the erected tail of an angry scorpion with its sting protruding.

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