Alii ferratas portarum obices effringendas adorti, ultro ignibus petebantur, vel elisi saxis muralibus oppetebant.
Translation :
Still others tried to break the iron bars of the gates, but were assailed in their turn with fire or slain by great stones hurled from the walls.
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.
