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| 17 | 586 | In this covered way, men View more quotes about passing">passing him, from various parts of the citadel, presumably taking their way to the harbor area, on a piece of stone, broken from the inside of the way, his head in his hands, sat Aemilianus, bleeding. |
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| 17 | 583 | Once closed they would have to be opened by hand or small tools. |
| 17 | 584 | The great ram could not be well turned within the covered way. |
| 17 | 585 | Still, at best, it seemed these additional obstructions would be unlikely to long impede the progress of our visitors. |
| 17 | 586 | In this covered way, men passing him, from various parts of the citadel, presumably taking their way to the harbor area, on a piece of stone, broken from the inside of the way, his head in his hands, sat Aemilianus, bleeding. |
| 17 | 587 | There was a great splintering of wood from above us and, over the hill of sand and such, packed behind the door, suddenly, bursting wood apart, there protruded, black, over five feet thick, and of solid iron, like some mythological monster, a great form, with curled-back horns, cast in the likeness of an adult verr ram. |
| 17 | 588 | I had never seen such a thing closely. |
| 17 | 589 | I drew my sword and scrambled up the debris behind the gate to examine it, but, as I approached it, it, in its rhythm, swung back. |