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Cav swords. Roman consular bodyguard trash them (and any other seige weapons). And as rams are slow and tend to tail behind or become separated from an invading army, whereas cavalry are fast, you can nip out, break the rams, and then garrison back in safety to let the infantry be destroyed by your defences.

In the abscence of cav swords massed spearmen (with ranged cover) are passable, though it tends to cost you. Also, other rams - the only difficulty is getting your rams to theirs in the general melee. You can also build distractor targets or blockades (e.g. barracks, towers) arround key buildings - helps to both distract the rams, and whittle down their infantry from the surrounding fire, allowing your infantry to ungarrison when the odds are in your favour and mop up the rams.