(24)Ammianus Marcellinus,XV.12.1.
    (25)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.2.
    (26)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.3.
    (27)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.I,pp.382-383,pp.451-453.
    (28)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.II,pp.259-360.
    (29)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.II,pp.360-362.
    (30)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.2.
    (31)Procopius,Wars,V.21.15-16.
    (32)弩炮射程可达五百米以上。普通弓箭射程一般只有两百米，有效杀伤射程都在五十米以内。Adkins,& Adkins,Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome,p.88; Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.I,pp.382-383,pp.451-452.普罗科皮乌斯也称弩炮的射程比普通弓箭大一倍，而且当时弩炮的性能已远不如马塞里努斯时代的弩炮，见Procopius，Wars，V.21.17。
    (33)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.3.
    (34)Ammianus Marcellinus,XIX.1.7.
    (35)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.II,p.361; Adkins,& Adkins,Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome,p.89.
    (36)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.7.
    (37)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.4-5.有关抛石机结构的其他记载及分析，见Hengst,"Preparing the reader for war:Ammianus' digression on siege engines",in Drijvers and Hunt edd.,The Late Roman World and its Historian,pp.29-30。
    (38)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.6.对这段具体发射操作记载的理解，马修斯(J.F.Matthews)与马尔斯登(E.W.Marsden)有争议，笔者大体采用马尔斯登的说法。Hengst,"Preparing the reader for war:Ammianus' digression on siege engines",in Drijvers and Hunt edd.,The Late Roman World and its Historian,p.30.
    (39)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.6.
    (40)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.5.
    (41)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIV.4.28.
    (42)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.I,pp.382-383,p.151,p.362.
    (43)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.8.这段记载与约瑟弗斯对攻城槌的记载很相似，有学者认为马塞里努斯借鉴了约瑟弗斯的文字，见Josephus,Bellum Judaicum,III.214,Hengst,"Preparing the reader for war:Ammianus' digression on siege engines",in Drijvers and Hunt edd.,The Late Roman World and its Historian,pp.30-31。
    (44)D.B.Campell,Greek and Roman Siege Machinery 399BC-AD363,Oxford:Osprey Publishing,2003,pp.16-21,pp.40-42.
    (45)Procopius,Wars,V.21.5-13.
    (46)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.8.