campo Nola sedet, crebris circumdata in orbem turribus, et celso facilem tutatur adiri planitiem vallo; sed, qui non turribus arma defendenda daret, verum ultro moenia dextra protegeret, Marcellus opem auxiliumque ferebat.
Nola, situated on a plain, is easy of approach, but is surrounded by a ring of many forts, whose high ramparts prevent access to the level ground. But Marcellus, who came to aid and support them, was not the man to shelter his troops behind the forts: his object was to defend the town by striking the first blow.
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