Siege engine
“fire machine”
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the engine · the incendiary engine · the ram
spoken of as
1 expressionBattering Ram“siege engine”1 mention
De Pallio (Latin)
For the ram too — not the one which Laberius makes with curving horn and woolly hide and dragging its testes, but the engine, a beam, which campaigns to break walls — though never yet had it been swung against anyone, that Carthage, fiercest in the pursuits of war, is said first of all to have armed, into the swinging of a pendent assault, having devised the force of the engine from the rage of a …
in the texts
De Pallio
A wall-breaking siege engine, first devised by Carthage and later used by Rome against Carthage itself.
For the ram too — not the one which Laberius makes with curving horn and woolly hide and dragging its testes, but the engine, a beam, which campaigns to break walls — though never yet had it been swung against anyone, that Carthage, fiercest in the pursuits of war, is said first of all to have armed, into the swinging of a pendent assault, having devised the force of the engine from the rage of a …
History of the Peloponnesian War
The incendiary siege engine built by the Boeotians, consisting of a hollowed beam, bellows, and a caldron of burning coals, sulphur, and pitch, used to breach Delium's wall.
and when it was near, they applied great bellows to the end of the beam next themselves, and blew them.
The blast passing closely confined into the caldron, which held lighted coals, sulphur, and pitch, produced a great flame, and set fire to a part of the wall;
Having sawn a great beam in two, they hollowed out the whole of it, and fitted it nicely together again, like a pipe, and hung by chains at the end of it a caldron, into which was placed an iron bellows-pipe, inclining from the beam, the timber also being for a considerable distance covered with iron.