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Postera die Sabinus exercitum aequo loco ostendit,
si barbari successu noctis alacres proelium auderent. et
postquam castello aut coniunctis tumulis non degrediebantur, obsidium coepit per praesidia quae opportune iam
muniebat; dein fossam loricamque contexens quattuor
milia passuum ambitu amplexus est; tum paulatim ut
aquam pabulumque eriperet contrahere claustra artaque
circumdare; et struebatur agger unde saxa hastae ignes
propinquum iam in hostem iacerentur. sed nihil aeque
quam sitis fatigabat, cum ingens multitudo bellatorum im-
bellium uno reliquo fonte uterentur; simulque armenta, ut
mos barbaris, iuxta clausa egestate pabuli exanimari; adiacere corpora hominum quos vulnera, quos sitis peremerat;
pollui cuncta sanie odore contactu.
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