The foure bookes of Flauius Vegetius Renatus briefelye contayninge a plaine forme, and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chiualrie, and vvhatsoeuer pertayneth to warre. Translated out af [sic] lattine, into Englishe, by Iohn Sadler. Anno. 1572. Seene and allovved, accordinge to the order appointed.
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The foure bookes of Flauius Vegetius Renatus briefelye contayninge a plaine forme, and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chiualrie, and vvhatsoeuer pertayneth to warre. Translated out af [sic] lattine, into Englishe, by Iohn Sadler. Anno. 1572. Seene and allovved, accordinge to the order appointed.
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Vegetius Renatus, Flavius.
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Imprinted at London :: In Fletestreate, neare to Saint Dunstones Churche by Thomas Marshe,
[1572]
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Military art and science -- Early works to 1800.
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"The foure bookes of Flauius Vegetius Renatus briefelye contayninge a plaine forme, and perfect knowledge of martiall policye, feates of chiualrie, and vvhatsoeuer pertayneth to warre. Translated out af [sic] lattine, into Englishe, by Iohn Sadler. Anno. 1572. Seene and allovved, accordinge to the order appointed." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14315.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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¶Of ladders and the frame of tymber wyth
ropes, of the bridge, and of the sweape.
Chap. xxj.
VUhen the tower comes to the wall by all meanes pos∣sible
they driue the ennemye from the wall, with sto∣nes,
dartes, arrowes, pellettes & such like. This be∣ing
done, and ladders set to the wall, they take the Cittye.
But they which do scale the walles with ladders, manye ti∣mes
sustaine perill and daunger after the example of Ca∣paneus:
by whom this manner of assaulte with ladders is
sayde to be first inuented, who was slaine with so greate vio∣lence
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by the Thebanes, that he was thought to be destroyed
with thunder. And therfore the besiegers do enter the wal∣les
of the ennemies with these engines called Sambuca, Ex∣ostra
and Tolleno, that is to saye, a frame of timber & roo∣pes,
a bridge, and a sweape. Sambuca is called after the si∣militude
of an harpe: for like as in a harpe there be stringes,
so in the beame which is nexte the towers, be roopes which
do loase and set at lybertye the bridge wyth pullyes, from ye
vpper part, that it may go vppon the wall: and straight way
the men of warre issue out of the tower, on•• goinge ouer vp∣pon
it, do inuade the walles of the Cittye. Exostra is that
bridge which we spake of before, which sodainly is stretched
forthe of the tower vnto the wall. Tolleno is this, when a
beame is set fast and deepe vppon the earth, vppon the which
in the highest toppe, another beame is ioyned ouerthwarte,
longer by the one halfe in measure so equallye, that when
you pull downe the one ende, the other ryseth vppe. In the
one ende of this wyth hurdles and boardes, is made roume
for a few men to stand in. Then pulling the one ende downe
with roopes, ye lifte vppe the other ende, & so set your men
vppon the walles.
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