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.
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.
and when it was near, they applied great bellows to the end of the beam next themselves, and blew them.