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cotidianus agger: i.e, the daily increase in the height of the agger.—commissis malis, by splicing the upright timbers; these were the high corner beams of the towers, by which they were raised in successive stages, so that each increase in the height of the Roman works was met by a corresponding increase in the height of the defences. The towers on the walls were probably connected by covered galleries, one for each story.


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