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NOW when Caesar perceived that the upper city was so steep that it
could not possibly be taken without raising banks against it, he distributed
the several parts of that work among his army, and this on the twentieth
day of the month Lous [Ab]. Now the carriage of the materials was a difficult
task, since all the trees, as I have already told you, that were about
the city, within the distance of a hundred furlongs, had their branches
cut off already, in order to make the former banks. The works that belonged
to the four legions were erected on the west side of the city, over against
the royal palace; but the whole body of the auxiliary troops, with the
rest of the multitude that were with them, [erected their banks] at the
Xystus, whence they reached to the bridge, and that tower of Simon which
he had built as a citadel for himself against John, when they were at war
one with another.
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