 ARISTOCRATIA. aries in its simplest state, and as it was borne and impelled by human hands, without other assistance. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron bands, to which rings were attached for the purpose of suspending it by ropes or...  A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Page 88edited by - 1843 - 1116 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1845 - 684 pages
...question, on account of the resemblance of its mode of action to that of a ram butting with its forehead. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...for the purpose of suspending it by ropes or chains to a beam fixed transversely over it. 496 Nan sic. " Not with such impetuosity." Literally, " not so."... | |
 | William Smith, Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1846 - 402 pages
...aries in its simplest state, and as it was borne and impelled by human hands, without other assistance. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...by ropes or chains from a beam fixed transversely D ARMA. 37 over it. See the lower figure in the woodcut. By this contrivance the soldiers were Ariefl,... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - Epic poetry, Latin - 1846 - 676 pages
...question, on account of the resemblance of its mode of action to that of a ram butting with its forehead. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...bands, to which rings were attached, for the purpose (if suspending it by ropes or chuins to a beam fixed transversely over it. 493. Emoti. " Wrenched."—... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1847 - 708 pages
...question, on account of the resemblance of its mode of action to that of a ram butting with its forehead. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...for the purpose of suspending it by ropes or chains to a beam fixed transversely over it. 498. Emoti. " Wrenched." 496. Non sic. •' Not with such impetuosity."... | |
 | Greek antiquities - 1848 - 1322 pages
...aries in its simplest state, and as it was borne and impelled by human hands, without other assistance. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...could with ease give it a rapid and forcible motion backwards and forwards. The use of this machine was further aided by placing the frame in which it... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Rome - 1851 - 486 pages
...anes in its simplest state, and as it was borne and impelled by human hands, without other assistance. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...a rapid and forcible motion backward and forward. XLIII. The ram was also worked out of the towers, and for this purpose ivas covered with sheds or mantlets... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1851 - 366 pages
...aries in its simplest state, and as it was borne and impelled by human hands, without other assistance. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...the woodcut. By this contrivance the soldiers were Aries, Battering Ram. relieved from the necessity of supporting the weight of the ram, and they could... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1854 - 396 pages
...aries in its simplest state, and as it was borne and impelled by human hands, without other assistance. In an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...the woodcut. By this contrivance the soldiers were EC Ariefl, Battering Run. relieved from the«necessity of supporting the weight of the ram, and they... | |
 | William Smith - Classical dictionaries - 1868 - 492 pages
...without other assistance. In an improved form, the ram Arice, Battering Fam. (From Column of Trajan.) was surrounded with iron bands, to which rings were...or chains from, a beam fixed transversely over it. By this contrivance the soldiers were relieved from the necessity of supporting the weight of the ram,... | |
 | William Smith - Classical antiquities - 1870 - 1312 pages
...its simplest state, and as it was borne and j impelled "by human hands, without other assistance. Tn an improved form, the ram was surrounded with iron...could with ease give it a rapid and forcible motion backwards and forwards. The use of this machine was further aided by placing the frame in which it... | |
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