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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · siege of sardis · siege and fortification · scaling ladders · lagoras the cretan
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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 …