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Pagina:A First Latin Reader.pdf/163

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This illustration, taken from the carvings on the column of Trajan (see page 40), shows how Roman soldiers, by locking their shields (scuta), formed a solid roof over their heads as they came up under a wall from which the enemy were sending down a shower of missiles.