Epic, Lyric, and Elegiac Poems of Andreas Libavius

Ought it, than by that with which it terrified all of Egypt?
While Delia Diana/the Moon lay hidden, and the air grew white with clouds,
And while the winds roared through the darkness with a murmur,
The chosen soldier approaches the gates, and sees fortune
Conspire toward his prayers, and the course of the works.
For the approaches to the bridge were lying open, with the enemy fearing nothing,
And the portcullis hung, preserving its seat,
With the gratings withdrawn, soon about to admit the reinforcements
Which the band had gone to plunder through the safe silences,
Then about to give a way to the one coming from REGIA ALBA Székesfehérvár
With wagons, and with provisions for the year carried for the youth
Packed with armed men, and a Moon-bearing Ottoman escort.
There is no delay, they proceed joyfully, and strive in turn
To fix the thunderbolts of the catapult against the opposing posts.
Let the wooden lies of the Greeks yield, let them yield,
The frauds of Pallas, and the fabricator EPEUS the builder of the Trojan Horse:
Here is another horse, and here another founder of the art,
And inventor of the trick, not like a mountain grown large,
But under a small mass, from a huge seat, a ruin
About to shake the rocks, and to mix the heights with the depths.
You would have seen the Roman battle lines of the ram once
Unloose the feathered walls with the blow having been struck,
And tear the stone foundations from under the sheds:
We craft thunderbolts, and we break the acroceraunian thunder-struck/lightning-shattered points
With fire-vomiting cannons, and we pour out showers of stones.
Not so does ENCELADUS the giant buried under Mt. Etna move Etna with a sob,
Not so do the breathing limbs of TYPHOEUS a giant trapped under Ischia move Inarime.
We subvert mountains, and the camps placed upon them, and we drive the men
Into vast tracts, and we snatch them through the breezes.
Therefore, pregnant with sulfur and saltpeter, PEDARTA a term for a heavy mortar,
Namely, with food prepared to seize and nourish the flame,
Is pushed into the gates, and fixed with twisted bronze.