Date: 1864
During the siege the priests regularly offered their sacrifices on the altar, twice a day, nor did they omit them, even if any accident occurred through the stones which were thrown by the enemy.  When the battering engine was at last brought up, and the largest of the towers was shaken and fell, the Romans entered the breach in the third month of the siege.  The first man who got into the fortress was Faustus, the son of the Dictator Sulla, and next to him two centurions