At illi vix contuberniis extrahi, nec aliud quam munimenta propugnabant, pars iussu ducis, et alii propria ignavia aut Corbulonem opperientes, ac vis si ingrueret, provisis exemplis Caudinae Numantinaeque cladis; neque eandem vim Samnitibus, Italico populo, ac Parthis, Romani imperii aemulis.
His opponents, however, could with difficulty be drawn from their quarters and confined themselves to defending the fortifications; some by command of the general, others from cowardice or a desire to wait for Corbulo, coupled with the reflection that, if the attack were pressed home, there were the precedents of the Caudine and Numantine disasters. Nor, indeed, they argued, had the Samnites, a tribe of provincial Italy, the strength of the Parthians who rivalled imperial Rome.
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