their natural inconstancy made them regret it before the Roman Lyarrison was recalled from the Crernera. 一L. The conflicts between the Faloxi and tine State of Veil were resumed without any more extensive military preparations than before. There were not only forays into each other's territories and surprise attacks upon the forayers, but sometimes they fought regular engagements, and this single Roman house often won the victory over what was at that time the most powerful city in Etruria. This was a bitter mortification to the Veientines, and they were led by circumstances to adopt the plan of trapp吨their daring enemy in an ambuscade;they were even glad that the numerous successes of the Fabli had increased their confidence. The Annihilatio二of the 1i abii.Accordingly they drove herds of cattle as if by accident, in the way of the foraying parties, the fields were abandoned by the peasants, and the bodies of stances of either time or place could their invincible arms be resisted. This presumption carried them so far that at the sight of some distant cattle on the other side of the wide plain stretching from the camp they ran down to secure them, although but few of the enemy were visible.24 Suspectin danger and keeping no order they passed the ambuscade w ch was set on each side of the road, and whilst they were scattered in t rying to catch the cattle, which in their frizht were rushinz wildl about, the enemy suddenly rose from their concealment an yd attacked them on all sides. At first they were startled by the shouts round them。theniavelins fell on them from every ，。.。。.，r‘，，，，， direction. As the Etruscans closed rouna tinem they Were hemmed by a continuous ring of men ，and the more the en pressed upon them, the less the space in. which they were fo ern占‘ n口口勺 ly范，加Jof to form their ever-narrowing square. This brought out str on the contrast between their scanty numbers and the host EtrUscans，whose ranks were multiplied through being narrowed. Etruscans., After a time they abandoned their plan of presenting a front on all sides:facinz in one direction then formed themselves into a wedge and by the utmost exertion of sword and muscle forced a passage through. The road led up to gentle eminence, and here they halted. When the higher ground gave them room to breathe freely and to recover from the feeling of despair, they repelled those. who mounted to the attack, and through the advantage of position the little band were beginning to win the dav. when some Veientines who had been sent round the hill emerged on the summit. So the enemy again had the advantage. The Fabii were all cut down to aman ，and their fort taken. It is generally agreed‘ that three hundred and six men perished, anal that one on玩an immature youth, was, left as a .stock for the Fabian house to be Rome's greatest helper in her hour of danger both at home and in the field.