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.