let into the wall, through which they admitted the general and the rest of the army. This is the way in which the Romans took Syracuse …. None of the citizens knew what was happening because of the distance; for the town is1125 a very large one …. But the Romans were rendered very confident1126 by their conquest of Epipolae …. He gave orders that the infantry should take the beasts of burden along with the baggage tied upon them from the rear and range