However under the leadership of senators Rutilius Pudens Crispinus and Tullus Menophilus, the walls were repaired and the city rallied to defend itself in a siege.

With great foresight they had brought into the city supplies of every kind in quantities sufficient to enable it to withstand a long siege.

Herodian: They launched numerous assaults virtually every day, and the entire army held the city encircled as if in a net, but the Aquileians fought back determinedly, showing real enthusiasm for war.

Unable to vent his wrath upon the enemy, he was enraged at most of his troop commanders because they were pressing the siege in cowardly and halfhearted fashion.

Soldiers of the Legio II Parthica (usually based at the castra Albana), decided to assassinate the emperor and his son Maximus and end the siege: The conspirators went to Maximinus' tent about noon.

The imperial bodyguard, which was involved in the plot, ripped Maximinus' pictures from the standards; when he came out of his tent with his son to talk to them, they refused to listen and killed them both.

[6] The battle was dramatised in the play The Siege of Aquileia: A tragedy by John Home (1722-1808) and in the book by Ian S. Collins Spartinius.