ARTILLERY Copy link • ARTILLERYlarge machines for shooting instruments of destruction, tormenta, plur., orum (comprehended in ancient warfare, ballistae and catapultae, for shooting stones, etc.). Heavy artillery, tormenta majoris modi: horse artillery, tormenta quae ab equitibus administrantur. A captain in the artillery, cohortis tormentariae praefectus. An artillery wagon, currus tormentarius: a park of artillery, tormenta, orum; apparatus tormentarius. The fire of artillery, ictus tormentarii. The artillery (as a service, etc.), res tormentaria. As a body, cohortes tormentariae or tormenta only.