1 Crevier supplement: “Then a mound was formed and works thrown up strengthened with towers and with engines, disposed in various parts so that the enemy might not be able to force a way through without great opposition and danger. [9] Thus he trusted that he should be secure against every attack of the Romans, and that, wearied out with inac- tion and slow delay, and drained by expenses, a disgust at so difficult a war would seize on the mind of the enemy. [10] On the other side, the more diligence and caution Paullus saw the Ma- cedonians use, the more assiduously did he study to devise some means of frustrating those hopes, which the enemy had not without reason conceived. [11] But he suffered immediate distress from the scarcity of water, as the neighbouring river was al- [p. 2094]most dried up, except that a little stream, and that impure, flowed in the part contiguous to the sea.
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