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4.
Ea dum a Corbulone tuendae Syriae parantur, acto
raptim agmine Monaeses ut famam sui praeiret, non ideo
nescium aut incautum Tigranen offendit. occupaverat
Tigranocertam, urbem copia defensorum et magnitudine
moenium validam. ad hoc Nicephorius amnis haud spernenda latitudine partem murorum ambit; et ducta ingens
fossa qua fluvio diffidebatur. inerantque milites et provisi
ante commeatus, quorum subvectu pauci avidius progressi
et repentinis hostibus circumventi ira magis quam metu
ceteros accenderant. sed Partho ad exequendas obsidiones
nulla comminus audacia: raris sagittis neque clausos
exterret et semet frustratur. Adiabeni cum promovere
scalas et machinamenta inciperent, facile detrusi, mox
erumpentibus nostris caeduntur.
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