"siege" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I have never observed Roman sieges, of course.
- A lot of good Egyptians died-how did they ever think to resist a Roman siege?
- Powerful Veii was a fortified city on an elevated site, which required several years of Roman siege.
- He received his toponymic cognomen "Coriolanus" because of his exceptional valor in a Roman siege of the Volscian city of Corioli.
- Carthage, which had previously disarmed, then was made to face the fatal Roman siege.
- So the date seed dates from 35 B.C. to A.D. 65, just before the famed Roman siege.
- In Gaul, the stronghold of Alesia was under a Roman siege in 52 BC, and surrounded by Roman fortifications.
- For several months beginning in A.D. 72, 967 Jewish zealots held out there against a Roman siege before their eventual suicides.
- The combined Carthaginian force set about organizing the defences of Adis, a city 40 miles southeast of Carthage, that was now under threat of a Roman siege.
- During the Punic wars, it would ironically suffer a Roman siege as a base of the Carthaginian army, which would be commanded by another Hannibal.
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