Identifier: republicanromehe1914have (find matches)
Title: Republican Rome; her conquests, manners and institutions from the earliest times to the death of Caesar
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord), d. 1913
Subjects: Rome -- History Republic, 510-30 B.C
Publisher: London, G. Harrap
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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Plate XXXllI. Columna Rostrata
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FIRST PUNIC WAR along the middle of the deck, and when the ship went intoaction it could be hauled up by means of a pulley fixed at thetop of a stout mast, which was set up at the prow of the vessel.Ikying close to the mast, and playing freely round it, the gang-way could be dropped at any moment on the deck of theattacking ship, where it was held fast by a strong claw orgrappling iron, fixed underneath at its farther end. Thenthe boarding-party, with two picked men at their head, rushedin a double file on to the enemys deck, and carried all beforethem by sheer strength of hand and skill with the sword.The strange machine was called a * crow, and its effect was tochange the whole character of a sea-fight and give it the aspectof a battle on land.^ Battle of Mylae At the beginning of spring in the fifth year of the war (260B.C.) the Roman fleet set sail for Sicily, commanded by Scipio,one of the consuls, while his colleague, Duilius, had charge ofthe land forces. Scipio was surprised a

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