qui Coriolos ceperat Volsco- city of the Volsci, being banished rum civitatem, ad ipsos the city, went over to the Volsci Volscos contendit iratus, et in a rage, and received assistance auxilia contra Romanos ac- against the Romans. He often cepit. Romanos sæpe vicit. conquered the Romans. He Usque ad quintum milliari- came within five miles of the city, um urbis accessit, oppug- designing too to attack the place naturus etiam patriam su- of his nativity, rejecting the depam, legatis, qui pacem pe- uties that begged peace from tebant, repudiatis, nisi ad him, unless his mother Veturia, eum mater Veturia, et uxor and his wife Volumnia had come Volumnia ex urbe venis- to him from the city, by whose sent, quarum fletu et de pre- weeping and importunity being precatione superatus removit ex- vailed upon, he drew off his army; ercitum : atque hic secundus and this was the second from post Tarquinium fuit,qui dux Tarquin, who was general of an contra patriam suam esset. army against his own country. 16. Cæsone Fabio et Tito 16. When Caso Fabius and Virginio consulibus trecen- Titus Virginius were Consuls, ti nobiles homines, qui ex Fa- 300 noblemen, who were of the bia familia erant, contra Ve- Fabian family undertook alone jentes bellum soli susceperunt the war against the Vejentes, promittentes Senatui et po- promising the Senate and people pulo per se omne certamen to manage that whole dispute by implendum. Itaque profecti themselves. Wherefore going omnes nobiles, et qui singuli accordingly, all of them nomagnorum exercitum duces blemen, and who each of them esse deberent, in prælio con- ought to have been leaders of ciderunt. Unus omnino su- great armies, they fell in battle. perfuit ex tanta familia, qui But one was left of so great a propter ætatem puerilem duci family, who by reason of his childnon potuerat ad pugnam. ish age could not be carried to Post hæc census in urbe habitus est, et inventa sunt civium capitum cxix. millia. the battle. After this the Census was again taken in the city, and there were found to be a hundred and nineteen thousand freemen. 17. Sequenti anno, cum 17. In the following year, in Algido monte, ab urbe the Roman army being besieged in duodecimo ferme milliaro, mount Algidum, at about the Romanus obsideretur exer- twelfth mile from the city, L. citus, Lucius Quintius Cin- Quintius Cincinnatus was made cinnatus Dictator est factus, Dictator, who possessing a piece qui agrum quatuor jugerum of land of four jugera, tilled it possidens, manibus suis co- with his own hands. He being lebat. Is, cum in opere et found at work and ploughing, arans esset inventus, sudore wiping off the sweat, took the deterso, Togam Prætextam Toga Prætexta, and cutting off accepit, et, cæsis hostibus, the enemy, delivered the army. liberavit exercitum. 18. Anno ccc. et altero 18. In the year 301, from the ab urbe condita, imperium building of the city, the Conconsulare cessavit, et pro sular government ceased, and induobus consulibus decem stead of tavo Consuls, ten officers facti sunt, qui summam po- were made, who had the supreme testatem haberent, Decem- power, being therefore named the viri nominati. Sed cum pri- Decemviri. But after they had mo anno bene egissent, se- behaved well the first year, in the cundo unus ex iis Appius second, one of them, Appius ClauClaudius Virginii cujus- dius, who had a design to debauch dam qui honestis jam sti- a young woman, daughter of one pendiis contra Latinos in Virginius, who served in an honmonte Algido militabat, fi- ourable post against the Latins, upliam virginem corrumpere on mount Algidum,whom her fathvoluit, quam pater occidit, er slew, that she might not suffer a ne stuprum a Decemviro ravishment from the Decemvir, sustineret, et regressus ad and returning to the soldiers, raismilites, movit tumultum. ed a mutiny. Upon which their Sublata est Decemviris po- authority was taken away from the testas, ipsique damnati sunt. Decemviri, and they condemned. 19. Anno trecentesimo 19. In the $15th year from decimo quinto ab urbe con- the building the city, the Fidenadita, Fidenates contra Ro- tians rebelled against the Romans. manos rebellaverunt. Auxi- The Vejentes gave them assistance, lium præstabant his Vejen- and the King of the Vejentes tes, et rex Vejentium To- Tolumnius: both which States lumnius, quæ ambæ civita- are so near the city Rome, that tes tam vicinæ urbi sunt, ut Fidene is but distant seven, and Fidenæ vii. Vejentes xviii. the Vejentes eighteen miles. The milliaro absint. Conjunx- Volsci likewise joined themselves erunt se his et Volsci; sed to them; but being conquered by M. Æmilio dictatore, Lu- M. Emilius the Dictator, and cio Quinto Cincinnato ma- L. Quintius Cincinnatus, Mas gistro equitum victi,etiam re- ter of the Horse, they likewise gem perdiderunt. Fidene lost their king. Fidena vas tacaptæ et excisa. Postxx.inde ken and destroyed. Twenty annos, Vejentini rebellave- years after the Vejentani rebelled. runt. Dictator contra ipsos Furius Camillus was sent Dicmissus est Furius Camillus, tator against them, who first conqui primum eos vicit acie; quered them in battle, and by and mox etiam civitatem diu ob- by besieging their city, took it, the sidens cepit, antiquissimam, most ancient and the richest in ItItaliæque ditissimam. Post aly. After it he took Falisci, a eam cepit et Faliscos, non mi- no less noble city. But a popunus nobilem civitatem. Sed lar odium was raised against him, commota est ei invidia, quasi as if he had divided the plunder prædam male divisisset, damn- unfairly, and he was condemned natusque ob eam causam, et for that reason and banished the expulsus civitate est. city. : 20. Statim Galli Senones 20. Immediately the Galli Sead urbem venerunt, et vic- nones came to the city, and pursutos Romanos xi. milliario ing the Romans after they had ab urbe Roma, apud flu- defeated them 11 miles from the men Alliam sequuti, etiam city Rome, at the river Allea, urbem occupaverunt; neque they likewise took the city. Nor defendi quidquam nisi Capi- could any thing be defended but tolium potuit: quod cum the Capitol which after they diu obsedissent, et jam had besieged a long time, and the Romani fame laborarent, a Romans were now pinched by Camillo, qui in vicina civi- famine, Camillus, who was in tate exsulabat, Gallis super- banishment in a neighbouring city, ventum est, gravissimeque came upon the Gauls, and they victi sunt; postea tamen, were overthrown with great loss; accepto etiam auro ne Ca- however afterwards, receiving a pitolium obsiderent, recesse- good sum of gold, not to besiege runt; sed sequutus eos Ca- the Capitol, they went away; millus ita cecidit, ut et au- but Camillus following them, so rum, quod his datum fuerat, routed them, that he both recoveret omnia quæ ceperant mi- ed the gold, which had been givlitaria signa, revocaret. Ita en them, and all the military tertium triumphans urbem standards they had taken. So he ingressus est, et appellatus entered the city a third time in ipse patriæ conditor. secundus Romulus, quasi et triumph, and was called a second Romulus as if he likewise was the builder of the city. LIBER II. ANNO ccclxv. ab ur- IN the year 365 from the buildbe condita, post captam ing of the city, but the first after autem primo, dignitates its being taken, the government mutatæ sunt; et, pro was altered; and instead of two duobus Consulibus, facti Consuls, military Tribunes, with Tribuni militares, Consula- Consular power, were made. ri potestat. Hinc jam cœ- From this time the Roman state pit Romana res crescere. began to grow. For Camillus Nam Camillus eo anno Vol- that year subdued the nation of scorum civitatem, quæ per the Volci, which had carried on lxx. annos bellum gesserat, a war against the Romans for vicit, et quorum urbem 70 years, as also the city of the et Sutrinorum, atque om- Equi and the Sutrini, and nes, deletis eorum exerciti- made himself master of them all, bus, occupavit, et tres si- cutting off their armies, and had mul triumphos egit. three triumphs together. 2. Titus etiam Quintius 2. T. Quintius Cincinnatus Cincinnatus Prænestinos, qui likewise pursuing the Pranestini, usque ad urbis Romæ portas who had come in a hostile manbello venerant, persequutus ner up to the gates of Rome, ad flumen Alliam vicit, et conquered them at the river Allia, civitates, quæ sub ipsis age- and added the cities which were bant, Romanis adjunxit ; under them, to the Romans; and ipsum præneste aggressus, attacking Praneste itself, took it by in deditionem accepit; quæ surrender; all which things omnia ab eo gesta sunt vi- were done by him in twenty days, ginti diebus, triumphusque and a triumph was voted him. ipsi decretus. 3. Verum dignitas Tri- 3. But the office of military bunorum Militarium non Tribunes did not continue long; diu perseveravit; nam post for after some time, it was aliquantum nullos placuit thought fit no more should be fieri; et quadrennium ita made; and four years past in in urbe fluxit, ut potestates the city so, that there avere none ibi majores non essent. Re- of the greater magistrates, Consumpserunt tamen Tribuni suls of Military Tribunes, in it. Militares Consulari potestate Yet the Military Tribunes with iterum dignitatem, et trien- Consular power at last resumed nio perseveraverunt. Rur- the government, and continued for sus Consules facti. three years. Then again Con 4. Lucio Genucio et suls were made. Quinto Servilio Consulibus, 4. L. Genucius and Quintus mortuus est Camillus: ho- Servilius being Consuls, Camillus nor ei secundus post Romu- died: the second honour after lum delatus est. Romulus was paid to him. 5. Titus Quintius Dicta- 5. T. Quintius was sent Dictor adversus Gallos, qui in tator against the Gauls, who had Italiam venerant, missus est. come into Italy. These had enHi ab urbe quarto milliario camped four miles from the city, trans Anienem fluvium con- beyond the river Anien. The sederant. Nobilissimus de noblest of the Senators, T. ManSenatoribus Titus Manlius lius, engaged and slew a Gaul, provocantem Gallum ad sin- that challenged any one of gulare certamen congressus the Romans to a duel, and occidit; et sublato torque taking from him a gold chain, aureo, colloq; suo imposito, and putting it upon his own neck, in perpetuam Torquati sibi be for ever after got the sirname et posteris cognomen acce- of Torquatus for himself and his pit. Galli fugati sunt, mox posterity. The Gauls were routper Caium Sulpicium Dicta- ed, and presently after conquered torem etiam victi. Non by the Dictator, C. Sulpicius. multo post a Caio Marcio Not long after the Thuscans were Thusci victi sunt, vii. mil- conquered by Caius Marcius, sevlia captivorum ex his in tri- en thousand prisoners of them umphum ducti. were led in triumph. 6. Census iterum habitus 6. The Census, or survey of est. Et cum Latini, qui a the people, was again taken. Romanis subacti erant, mili- And the Latins, who had been tes præstare nollent, ex Ro- subdued by the Romans, refusing manis tantum tirones lecti to furnish their quota of soldiers, sunt, factæque legiones de- recruits were levied from amongst cem, qui modus sexaginta the Romans only, and ten legions vel amplius armatorum mil- completed, which number made lia efficiebat: parvis adhuc sixty thousand men or more : the Romanis rebus, tanta tamen Roman state being as yet but small, |