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1 Machines for throwing heavy missiles were known to the Assyrians several centuries before this and their use was probably brought to the west by the Carthaginians, from whom the western Greeks learned of them.
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- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TORMENTUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AETNA
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