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Originally Posted by The Colonel
Which reminds me ... kind of ironic that we tend to use "ballista" for "bolt firing engine" and "catapult" for "stone throwing engine" given that, IIRC, the Romans used precisely the reverse definitions.
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I think the thing is that the Romans ballista, while throwing stones, where crossbow like, so when someone made one that threw bolts, it got called a ballista