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CXLIII. (Book 143)
Obsidium Ʋrbis.
Urbs obsidionem passura, primùm provocatur per Tubicinem, 1. & invitatur ad Deditionem.
Quod facere si abnuat, oppugnatur ab obsidentibus, & occupatur:
Vel muros per Scalas 2. transcendendo,
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Urbs obsidionem passura, primùm provocatur per Tubicinem, 1. & invitatur ad Deditionem.
Quod facere si abnuat, oppugnatur ab obsidentibus, & occupatur:
Vel muros per Scalas 2. transcendendo,
aut Arietibus 3. diruendo, aut Tormentis 4. demoliendo; vel Portas Exostrâ 5. dirumpendo; vel Globos tormentarios 6. è Mortariis (balistis) 7. per Balistarios, 8. (qui post Gerras 9. latitant) in Urbem ejaculando; vel eam per Fossores 10. Cuniculis subvertendo.
Obsessi defendunt se de muris, 11. ignibus, lapidibus, &c. aut erumpunt. 12.
Ʋrbs vi expugnata, diripitur, exciditur, interdum solo aequatur.
A City that is like to endure a Siege, is first Summoned by a Trumpeter, 1. and parswaded to Yield.
Which if it refuse to do, it is assaulted by the Besiegers, and taken by Storm:
Either by climbing over the Walls with Scaling-ladders, 2.
or breaking them down wt Battering-engines, 3. or demolishing them with great-Guns; 4. or breaking tho∣row the Gates with a Petarr; 5. or casting Granadoes 6. out of Morter-pieces 7. into the City, by Engineres, 8. who lye behinde Leagure-Baskets; 9. or over throwing it with Mines by Pyoneres 10.
They that are Besieged defend themselves from the Walls, 11. with Fire, and Stones, &c. or break out by force.
A City that is taken by Storm, is plundered, destroyed, and sometimes laid even with the ground.