13 contecta: i.e. the shield kept in a leather casing.
16 plutei = screens or mantlets of hurdles covered with raw hides.
17 tormenta (torqu + mentum) = artillery, engines for throwing missiles by twisted ropes; e.g. the ballista, catapulta.
24 musculum = sapping-shed.
turrim latericiam = brick tower.
25 multorum mensium, i.e. from May to August 49 B.C.
CIVIL WAR, 49-45 B.C. (5)
‘Nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it.’
Quid nunc rostra tibi prosunt turbata forumque