The Vitellians, who were investing them, kept a half-hearted watch, and Sabinus was thus enabled to send for his own children and his nephew Domitian at dead of night, dispatching a courier by an unguarded route to tell the Flavian generals that he and his men were under siege, and would be in great straits unless they were rescued.
Viteliar soldaduak zaintza laxoz inguratu zituen eta, horri esker, gaua aurreratzean, Sabinok seme-alabak eta Domiziano, anaiaren semea, Kapitoliora joanarazi zituen, flaviar buruzagiei, zaindu gabeko bideetatik, mezularia bidalirik, eurak berak zeudela setiaturik jakinaraztera, eta laguntzen ez bazieten, egoera larritu egingo zela.