Plutarch's Parallel Lives: Archimedes's machines smash the Roman siege engines, bewildering Marcellus; Polybius: Archimedes' machines repel the Roman…
Archimedes's machines smash the Roman siege engines, bewildering Marcellus
ἔτι δὲ ἄπωθεν αὐτῆς προσφερομένης πρὸς τὸ τεῖχος ἐξήλατο λίθος δεκατάλαντος ὁλκήν, εἶτα ἕτερος ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ τρίτος, ὧν οἱ μὲν αὐτῇ ἐμπεσόντες μεγάλῳ κτύπῳ καὶ…
Location: Plut. Marcellus 15.4
Archimedes' machines repel the Roman assault on the towers
ἔτι μὲν γὰρ ὄντες ἐν ἀποστήματι τοῖς τε πετροβόλοις καὶ καταπέλταις τυπτόμενοι διεφθείροντο, διὰ τὸ θαυμάσιον εἶναι τὴν τῶν βελῶν κατασκευὴν καὶ κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος…
Location: 8.7
Place: Syracusae
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