. Latin for beginners . the lowest story. (See picture, p. 221.) 220 THE CITY IS TAKEN vinels ad ipsum oppidum agitur. Turn turris in aggere promovetur ;arietibus qui sub vineis conlocati erant mufus et portae discutiuntur;ballistis, catapultis, reliquisque tormentis lapides et tela in oppidumconiciuntur. Postremo cum iam turris et agger altitudinem muri5 adaequant et arietes moenia perfregerunt/ signo dato milites inruuntet oppidum expugnant. LXXIV. THE CITY IS TAKEN • THE CAPTIVES ARE QUESTIONED Omnibus rebus necessarils ad oppugnandum a Publio comparatis, deliberatur in concilio quod consil
. Latin for beginners . the lowest story. (See picture, p. 221.) 220 THE CITY IS TAKEN vinels ad ipsum oppidum agitur. Turn turris in aggere promovetur ;arietibus qui sub vineis conlocati erant mufus et portae discutiuntur;ballistis, catapultis, reliquisque tormentis lapides et tela in oppidumconiciuntur. Postremo cum iam turris et agger altitudinem muri5 adaequant et arietes moenia perfregerunt/ signo dato milites inruuntet oppidum expugnant. LXXIV. THE CITY IS TAKEN • THE CAPTIVES ARE QUESTIONED Omnibus rebus necessarils ad oppugnandum a Publio comparatis, deliberatur in concilio quod consilium ^oppidl expugnandi ineant.^ Tum unus* ex centurionibus,10 vir re! militaris peritissimus, *^ Ego suadeo, inquit, ut ab ea parte, ubi aditus sit^ facilli- mus, aggerem exstruamus^ et turrim promoveamus^ atque15 ariete admoto simul murum discutere conemur. 6 >) Hoc consilium cum omnibus place-ret, Caesar concilium milites hortatus ut pri-20 ores victorias memoria^ tene-rent, iussit aggerem exstrui,. BALLISTA turrim et arietem admoverl. Neque oppidanis^ consilium defuit. Aliiignem et omne genus telorum de muro in turrim coniecerunt, alii in-gentia saxa in vineas et arietem devolverunt. Diti utrimque acerrime 1 perfregerunt, from perfringo. ^ oppidi expugnandi. Is this a gerund ora gerundive construction? Cf. § 501. 37. ^ ineant, § 501. 50. * unus, inquit. ^ sit. This is a so-called subjunctive by attraction, which meansthat the clause beginning with ubi stands in such close connection with thesubjv. clause beginning with ut, that its verb is attracted into the same mood.^ All these verbs are in the same construction. ^ Hoc consilium, subj. ofplaceret. For the order cf. Haec cum, etc., p. 215, 1. 22, and note; Id imperatorcum, p. 217, 1. 8. ^ memoria, abl. of means. ^ oppidanis, § 501. 15. THE CAPTIVES ARE QUESTIONED 221
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