The Etruscans threaten Rome.一when this disaster occurred, C. Horatius and T. Menenius were consuls. Menenius was at ononce cesent against the Tuscans, flushed with their recent victory. Another unsuccessful action was fought, and the jenemy took possession of the Janiculum. The City, which was suffering from. scarcity as well as from the war, would have been invested for the Etruscans had crossed the Tiber----had not the consul Horatius been recalled from the Volsci. The fi,ahtinz approached so near the walls that the first battle, an maecxsive one. tooic place near the femme of bDes。ana the second at the .Colline gate. In the latter, although the Romans gained only a slight advantage, the soldiers recovered something of their old courage and were better prepared for future ,campaigns. The next consuls were A. Verginius and Sp. Servilius. After their defeat in the last battle, the Veientines declined an en gagement There were forays. From the Janiculum, as from. a ,citadel they made raids in all directions on the Roman territory; nowhere were the cattle or the country-folk safe. They were ultimately caught by the same stratagem by which they had caught the Fabii. Some cattle were purposely driven ins different directions as a decoy;they tonowea tnern ana tell into an ambuscade;and as their numbers were greater, the slauLThter was greater. Their rage at this defeat was the cause and commencement of a more serious one. They crossed the Tiber by night and marched up to an attack on Servilius' camp, but were routed with great loss, and with great difficulty reached the!aniculum. }rne consul nimseit rorcnwxtn crossed, the Tiber and entrencnecl nxmseit at the loot of the j aniculum. The confidence inspired by his victory of the previous day, but still more the scarcity of corn, made him decide upon an immediate but precipitate move. He led his army at daybreak up the side of the I aniculurn to the enemies- camp;but ne met with a more disastrous repulse than the one ne nag znicted: the day before. It was only by the intervention of his colleague that he and his army were saved. The Etruscans, caught between the two armies, and retreating from each alternately,, were annihilated. So the veientine war was brought to a sudden close by an act of happy rashness.