fhulae performed the function of ties, notstruts : and Mr. Kitson Clarks suggestion {Classical Bevieiv, 1908,p. 144) that they were disposed as in the annexed sketch {aa andhh) has much to commend it. The roadway was formed by plankslaid on the trestles and covered with spars and hurdles. Pileswere… … TresHes of Cevesars bridge over hheRhir\e a-a, [r-b, fibula^e of the second, as Caesar expressly tells us, to buttress the structure.It is not clear how this was effected, nor what Caesar means whenhe tells us that the buttress-piles were driven oblique. It remains to mention the pontoon-bridges…
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