[Sca-cooks] Onagers

[James Prescott]

At 17:56 -0600 2004-12-17, Stefan li Rous wrote:

>  Oh! Interesting. I believe there is a siege engine called an 
> "onager". I wonder if part of the reason might be that is a 
> particularly onerous machine to work with.

The ostensible reason (i.e. use salt, pending suitably scholarly
backing for the theory) is that when it fires the back end kicks up
like unto the kick of a wild ass.


Thorvald