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71.2.

conlocare: indir. disc.; we should have expected the fut. infin. conlocaturos [esse]. Apparently the Gauls thought the Romans meant to lift the tower and set it up on the wall (in muro) ; and such an idea, of course, seemed very amusing. But when the tower began to roll forward they saw their error.


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