Laxatis deinde ad diem unum indutiis, tertia luce milite curiosius tecto, elatis passim clamoribus, ascensus undique temptabatur. Et licet defensores sub obtentis ciliciis, ne conspicerentur ab hostibus, latebant intrinsecus, tamen quotiens flagitabat necessitas, lacertos fortiter exsertantes, lapidibus subiectos incessebant et telis.
Translation :
Then, after a single day's truce, on the third day, with the soldiers more carefully protected and amid loud outcries everywhere, they attempted from every quarter to scale the walls; but although the defenders were hidden within behind hair-cloth stretched before them, in order that the enemy might not see them, yet whenever necessity required they would fearlessly thrust out their right arms and attack the besiegers with stones and weapons.
Edition :
Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.
