tandem condensis artae testudinis armis subducti Poeni vallo caecaque latebra pandunt prolapsam suffossis moenibus urbem.
But at last the Carthaginians retreated from the rampart, sheltered by the close-packed shields of the serried tortoise,c and sapped the wall unseen till it collapsed, and made a breach into the town.
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