Your provisions and water are failing.

You must soon fall into our hands.

The bridges are broken down, and you cannot escape.

There will be too few of you left to satisfy the vengeance of the gods." When he had finished, a shower of arrows showed that hostilities had recommenced.
The garrison were now completely disheartened.

Of what use the tremendous exertions they had made, and the lives that had been lost?
They were still, as they had been on the first day of their arrival, hemmed in in their fortress, surrounded by foes thirsting for their blood.