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 35 — PART V HISTORICAL NOTES ON ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL SIEGE ENGINES AND THEIR EFFECTS IN WARFARE

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Balistas.

36 ‘For this was the only sort of defence which they had learned, by experience in other places, could not be pierced by darts or engines.’ Cæsar’s Commentaries on the Civil War, Book II., Chapter IX.

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