Ac ni cito nuntiis ex castellis proximis subventum foret copiarum obsidio, occidione obcubuissent: praefectus tamen et octo centuriones ac promptissimus quisque e manipulis cecidere.
and, if relief had not quickly reached the invested troops from the neighbouring forts'they had been informed by messenger 'they must have perished to the last man. As it was, the prefect fell, with eight centurions and the boldest members of the rank and file.
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