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| 42 | 22 | The ditch in View more quotes about question">question was some fifty yards from the great gate. |
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| 42 | 19 | When the gate is open, they will rush forward, from the near ditch". |
| 42 | 20 | This was to have been expected, of course, that enemy troops would have been marshaled in, and concealed within, the closest of the two ditches encircling Mytilene. |
| 42 | 21 | In this way, as soon as the gate was open, they would presumably clamber forth in a thick column matched to the width of the opened portal, and hurry into the city. |
| 42 | 22 | The ditch in question was some fifty yards from the great gate. |
| 42 | 23 | This distance and the likely width of the advancing column were both of interest. |
| 42 | 24 | "The beams are heavy," said a voice. |
| 42 | 25 | "To reinforce the gate against the pounding ram," said the first voice. |