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vīneīs ad ipsum oppidum agitur. Tum turris in aggere prōmovētur; arietibus quī sub vīneīs conlocātī erant mūrus et portae discutiuntur; ballistīs, catapultīs, reliquīsque tormentīs lapidēs et tēla in oppidum coniciuntur. Postrēmō cum iam turris et agger altitūdinem mūrī adaequant et arietēs moenia perfrēgērunt,[1] signō datō mīlitēs inruunt et oppidum expugnant.
LXXIV. THE CITY IS TAKEN • THE CAPTIVES ARE QUESTIONED
Omnibus rēbus necessāriīs ad oppugnandum ā Pūbliō comparātis,
dēliberātur in conciliō quod cōnsilium oppidī[2] expugnandī ineant.[3]
BALLISTA Tum ūnus[4] ex centuriōnibus, vir reī mīlitāris peritissimus, “Ego suādeō,” inquit, “ut ab eā parte, ubi aditus sit[5] facillimus, aggerem exstruāmus[6] et turrim prōmoveāmus[6] atque ariete admōtō simul mūrum discutere cōnēmur.”[6] Hoc
cōnsilium[7] cum omnibus placēret, Caesar concilium dīmīsit. Deinde mīlitēs hortātus ut priōrēs victōriās memoriā[8] tenērent, iussit aggerem exstruī, turrim et arietem admovērī. Neque oppidānīs[9] cōnsilium dēfuit. Aliī ignem et omne genus tēlōrum dē mūrō in turrim coniēcērunt, aliī ingentia saxa in vīneās et arietem dēvolvērunt. Diū utrimque ācerrimē
- ↑ perfrēgērunt, from perfringō.
- ↑ oppidī expugnandī. Is this a gerund or a gerundive construction? Cf. § 501. 37.
- ↑ ineant, § 501. 50.
- ↑ ūnus, subj. of inquit.
- ↑ sit. This is a so-called subjunctive by attraction, which means that the clause beginning with ubi stands in such close connection with the subjv. clause beginning with ut, that its verb is attracted into the same mood.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 All these verbs are in the same construction.
- ↑ Hoc cōnsilium, subj. of placeret. For the order cf. Haec cum, etc., p. 215, 1. 22, and note; Id imperātor cum, p. 217, 1. 8.
- ↑ memoria, abl. of means.
- ↑ oppidānīs, § 501. 15.
