The Besieging of a City.
Obsidium Urbis.
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A _City_ that
is like to endure a _Siege_,
is first summoned
by a _Trumpeter_, 1.
and persuaded to _yield_.
_Urbs_
passura _Obsidionem_,
primum provocatur
per _Tubicinem_, 1.
& invitatur ad _Depitionem_.
Which if it refuseth to do,
it is assaulted by the Besiegers,
and taken by storm.
Quod si abnuat facere,
oppugnatur ab Obsidentibus
& occupatur.
Either by climbing over
the walls with _Scaling-ladders_, 2.
or breaking them down
with _Battering-engins_, 3.
Vel muros per _Scalas_, 2.
transcendendo,
aut diruendo
_Arietibus_, 3.
or demolishing them
with _great Guns_, 4.
or breaking through
the Gates with a _Petarr_, 5.
aut demoliendo
_Tormentis_, 4.
vel dirumpendo
portas _Exostra_, 5.
or casting _Granadoes_, 6.
out of _Mortar-pieces_, 7.
into the City,
by _Engineers_, 8.
vel ejaculando _Globos Tormentarios_, 6.
e _Mortariis_ (_balistis_), 7.
in Urbem
per _Balistarios_, 8.
(who lye behind
_Leagure-baskets_, 9.)
or overthrowing it with
_Mines_ by _Pioneers_, 10.
(qui latitant post
_Gerras_, 9.)
vel subvertendo
_Cuniculis_ per _Fossores_, 10,
_They that are besieged_
defend themselves
from the _Walls_, 11.
with fire and stones, &c,
or _break out by force_, 12.
_Obsessi_
defendunt se
de _Muris_, 11.
ignibus, lapidibus, &c.
aut _erumpunt_, 12.
A _City_
_that is taken by Storm_
is plundered,
destroyed,
and sometimes laid even
with the ground.
_Urbs_
_vi expugnata_,
diriditur,
exciditur,
interdum equatur
solo.