Vulgar words in Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation (Page 1)
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Notwithstanding the want of strict legitimacy in his position, I do not remember any occasion on which the taunt of bastard birth was thrown in his teeth, even by the bitterest of his foes.
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But though the Gothic host was approaching with its threatening towers close to the walls, Belisarius would not give the signal, and not a _Balista_, nor a Wild Ass was allowed to hurl its missiles against the foe.
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Then the signal to shoot was given to the soldiers, and hundreds of bolts from Wild Ass and _Balista_ were hurtling through the air, aimed not at Gothic soldiers, but at the luckless oxen that drew the ponderous towers.