onagri

If onagri or springals lay unassembled in the hold they were not yet being brought to the deck.

Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the balistri, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the onagri, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the _balista_, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the _onagri_, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the balistri, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the onagri, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size.

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