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Often appears with: siege and fortification · use of rain as cover · unguarded wall · supply, logistics, and encampment · strategy and the aims of war · siege of sardis · siege of arpi · sambucae or harps · roman siege engineering · night assault · lagoras the cretan · battle and tactics
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Fabius lays siege to Arpi, uses selected men to scale a guarded low gate, and a midnight rain and sleeping guards enable the Romans to enter shortly before daylight through the broken gate.
the flight of Altinius, and then, touching the quantity of gold and silver which was left at his house, and informed himself on all these points, he burned them alive. 46. Fabius, setting out from Suessula, first set about the siege of Arpi; and having pitched his camp about half a mile from it, he took a near view of the site and walls of the city, and resolved to attack it, in preference, in that quarter where it …
In the siege of Sardis, Lagoras the Cretan plans to exploit an unguarded wall near the “Saw,” reasoning vultures gather there and guards leave for long parts of the day.
[Sidenote: Siege of Sardis from the end of B.C. 216 to autumn of B.C. 215.] +15.+ Round Sardis ceaseless and protracted skirmishes were taking place and fighting by night and day, both armies inventing every possible kind of plot and counterplot against each other: to describe which in detail would be as useless as it would be in the last degree wearisome. At last, when the siege had already entered upon its second …
Polybius describes Roman assault engineering at Syracuse: towers and scaling ladders against Hexapylus, and “Sambucae/Harps” mounted on lashed ships to drop ladders onto the battlements.
[Sidenote: See Plutarch, *Aratus*, ch. 51. Cp. *supra*, 7, 10-14.] +10.+ Upon arriving in Messenia Philip began devastating the country, like an open enemy, with more passion than reason; for while pursuing this continuous course of injurious actions, he expected, it appears to me, that the sufferers would feel no anger or hatred towards him. I was induced to speak of these proceedings in somewhat full detail in the…