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Demetrius Poliorcetes (“The Besieger”)
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Plutarch
Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
Translated by John Dryden
Demetrius was skilled in directing catapults and battering rams to crush city walls. Demetrius's tortoise-like armored battering rams were 180 feet long and manned by one thousand men, and his giant catapults threw 180-pound stone balls a quarter of a mile. Probably his most fearsome device was an enormous wheeled fortified tower called
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
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