The pinnets of the fortifications they dragged down and overthrew the battlements, and pried out the supporting beams that the Achaeans had set first in the earth as buttresses for the wall.
κρόσσας μὲν πύργων ἔρυον , καὶ ἔρειπον ἐπάλξεις , στήλας τε προβλῆτας ἐμόχλεον , ἃς ἄρ' Ἀχαιοὶ πρώτας ἐν γαίῃ θέσαν ἔμμεναι ἔχματα πύργων .
κρόσσαι μέν πύργος ἐρύω1 , καί ἐρείπω ἔπαλξις , στήλη τε προβλής μοχλέω , ὅς ἄρα Ἀχαιός πρῶτος ἐν γαῖα τίθημι εἰμί ἔχμα πύργος .