48.
In the mean time those who had gone to the other part of the town to defend it,
as we have mentioned above, at first, aroused by hearing the shouts, and,
afterward, by frequent accounts, that the town was in possession of the Romans, sent forward their cavalry, and hastened in
larger numbers to that quarter. As each first came he stood beneath the wall,
and increased the number of his countrymen engaged in action. When a great
multitude of them had assembled, the matrons, who a little before were
stretching their hands from the walls to the Romans,
began to beseech their countrymen, and after the Gallic fashion to
show their disheveled hair, and bring their children into public view. Neither
in position nor in numbers was the contest an equal one to the Romans; at the same time, being exhausted by running
and the long continuation of the fight, they could not easily withstand fresh
and vigorous troops.
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