. The first six books of Cæsar's commentaries on the Gallic war. dnes. Turris, is, a tower. The towers used in the Roman military workswere of two kinds, the fixed ind the moveable. The fixed tow-ers wTere erected on the agger, or mound, and were raised suffi-ciently high to overlook and command the enemys ramparts, andfrom them showers of arrows, darts, and other missiles werethrown by means of various engines. The moveable towers (Seewood cut, next page,) were pushed forward on rollers or wheelsfixed below. To prevent them from being set on fire they werecovered with raw hides and pieces of
. The first six books of Cæsar's commentaries on the Gallic war. dnes. Turris, is, a tower. The towers used in the Roman military workswere of two kinds, the fixed ind the moveable. The fixed tow-ers wTere erected on the agger, or mound, and were raised suffi-ciently high to overlook and command the enemys ramparts, andfrom them showers of arrows, darts, and other missiles werethrown by means of various engines. The moveable towers (Seewood cut, next page,) were pushed forward on rollers or wheelsfixed below. To prevent them from being set on fire they werecovered with raw hides and pieces of coarse woollen cloth. Theywere of immense size, sometimes forty or fifty feet squaie, andhisher than the walls, or even the towers of the city. Whenbrousht up against the walls, a place was seldom able to standout long. Sometimes they were provided with a species of dropor platform, which being let down reached from the tower to thetop of the wall and formed a species of bridge by which the as-sailants took possession of the walls. 310 VBII VALERIUS. 1 u. Ubii, orum, a people of Germany, whose territories were on theRhine opposite to the Sigambri. Unelli, orum, a people of Gallia CeltTca, on the northwest of whatis now called Normandy. Their country was bounded on threesides by the sea. Their chief town was Coriallum, (Gouril.) Offthe coast of the Unelli, lay the islands of Caesarea, (Jersey,) Sar-nia, (Guernsey,) and Reduna, (Alderney,) which have long beenin possession of the British. Usipetes, um, or Usipii, drum, a people of Germany, on the rightbank of the Rhenus, (Rhine.) V. VAtfjfttts, is, m. Wahal, or, Waal, the left branch of the Rhenus,(Rhine.) It joins the Mosa, (Meuse,) at the island of Voorn, andfalls into the German sea below the Breil. Valerius, i, (Caius V. Caburns,) a chief man among the Gauls inProvincia, whose original name appears to have been Caburus. VALERIUS VEIITICO. 311 On being made a Roman citizen, by C. Valeria! Flaccus, he, asWma usual, to
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