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helepole Anc. Hist.|ˈhɛlɪpəʊl|
[a. F. hélépole, ad. late L. helepolis = Gr. ἑλέπολις city-taking, used as fem. n. = a besieging engine, f. ἑλ- to take + πόλις city.]
An ancient besieging engine, a kind of movable tower.
[1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 33 b, Ye engins called..tolleons, Walking toures, Heliopolins.] 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) II. 950/1 His engines, called helepoles, were a pleasing spectacle to the very towns which he besieged. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XIV. 793 The moveable towers employed by the ancients in their sieges, and which they called Helepoles. |