quid illis, si acerbitatem casus intueare, miserius, si constantiam respicias, fidelius? qui ne a Romanis desciscerent, tali uti cibi genere sustinuerunt, cum pinguissima arva sua fertilissimosque campos moenibus suis subiectos intuerentur.
What unhappy folk if you consider the cruelty of their plight, what faithful folk if you look at their steadfastness! Such food did they bring themselves to eat rather than defect from Rome while they looked at their fat fields and fertile plains spread out below their walls!
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