(47)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.9.
    (48)Ammianus Marcellinus,XX.11.11-15.
    (49)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.10; Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.I,p.360,p.453,p.457.按此德米特里乌斯指马其顿安提戈王朝(Antigonid Dynasty)的开创者德米特里乌斯一世(Demetrius I,306-286 BC)。
    (50)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.II,p.315,p.362; Adkins,& Adkins,Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome,p.81.
    (51)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.10.《历史》中还有一处介绍性记载内容基本于此类似。见Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIV.2.18。马塞里努斯这里所说的“Helepolis”是广义的称谓，泛指所有攻城用塔形装备，其结构跟德米特里乌斯的发明并不完全一致。Hengst,"Preparing the reader for war:Ammianus' digression on siege engines",in Drijvers and Hunt edd.,The Late Roman World and its Historian,p.31.
    (52)Procopius,Wars,V.21.3-4,VI.12.1-3.
    (53)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.I,pp.382-383,pp.150-152.
    (54)Campell,Greek and Roman Siege Machinery 399BC-AD363,pp.6-13,pp.37-40; Penrose,Rome and Her Enemies:An Empire Created and Destroyed by War,p.161.
    (55)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.11-12.
    (56)Caesar,Bellum Civile,II.9.4.
    (57)Vegetius,IV.14; De rebus bellicis,VIII.4.相关分析见Hengst,"Preparing the reader for war:Ammianus' digression on siege engines",in Drijvers and Hunt edd.,The Late Roman World and its Historian,p.32。
    (58)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIII.4.13.
    (59)R.Browning,The Emperor Julian,London:Weidenfeld & Nicolson,1977,p.200; Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIV.2.9-11.
    (60)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIV.2.12-17.
    (61)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIV.2.18.
    (62)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIV.2.19.维吉提乌斯对攻城塔的巨大威慑力也有类似的描述：“那些寄希望于高墙的守城者猛然发现头顶上是敌人更高的墙，他们还有何希望？”见Vegetius，IV.17。
    (63)Ammianus Marcellinus,XXIV.2.20-22.
    (64)Sabin,& van Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.II,p.365.
    (65)Ammianus Marcellinus,XIX.2.7,XIX.5.7-8.
    (66)Ammianus Marcellinus,XIX.5.4-7.
    (67)Sabin,& v.Wees,& Whitby,The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare,Vol.II,p.288.
    (68)Vegetius,II.15,III.14,IV.20,IV.22.
    (69)Ammianus Marcellinus,XVI.2.5-6.