helepolis

• When Callias was asked by the Rhodians to construct a machine to resist this helepolis, and to bring it within the wall as he had promised, he said that it was impossible 5. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
• The water was flowing insensibly along the terrace, and strange to say, it seemed to cause Hamilcar no anxiety But when the helepolis was thirty paces off, he commanded planks to be placed over the streets between the houses from the cisterns to the rampart; and a file of people passed from hand to hand helmets and amphoras, which were emptied continually. —  Salammbo
• 47.)] [Footnote 30: Even the helepolis, or movable turret. —  History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
• Callias by name, coming to Rhodes, gave a public lecture, and showed a model of a wall, over which he set a machine on a revolving crane with which he seized an helepolis as it approached the fortifications, and brought it inside the wall. —  The Ten Books on Architecture
• He constructed at enormous expense, with the utmost care and exertion, an helepolis one hundred and thirty-five feet high and sixty feet broad. —  The Ten Books on Architecture

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