Accedebat his haut levius malum, quod lecta manus et copiosa (quae obsidebatur) nullis ad deditionem illecebris flectebatur, sed tamquam superatura, vel devota cineribus patriae, resistebat.
Added to this was an equally serious disadvantage, in that the large and carefully chosen force of the besieged could not by any enticements be led to surrender, but resisted as though resolved either to be victorious or to die amid the ashes of their native city.
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