Neither the number of the enemy, however, nor the force of their missiles were able to check the gallant fellow's onset. VI, M. Atilius now brought up the leading maniple of the sixth the Spanish cohort; L Porcius Licinius and who were in commanc O 护tl the camp, were keenirw uD a fierce struzzle in front of the breastwork, and mtjea some of the elephants wnust they were actually ciamaering over it. Their bodies rolled down into the fosse and filled it uv. makinir a bridge for the passage of the enemv, and a terrible carnage Megan o弊t平，prostrate乍ie秒ants.，。，.。 On the other siae oi the camp the uapuans ana tner runic garrison had饰this time been repulsed, and on right up to the city gate which leads to the Volturnus. The efforts of the Romans to break in were frustrated not so much勿 the arms of the defenders as by the ballistae and scorpions which were mounted over the gate and kept the assailants at a distance by the missiles they discharged. A further check was given them by a wound received by Appius Claudius;he was struck by a heavy javelin in the upper part of the chest under the left shoulder, whilst he was riding along the front encouraging his men. A great many of the enemy， were however killed outside the gate;the rest were driven in hasty flight into the city. When Hannibal saw the destruction{ of his Spanish cohort and the e with which the Romans were defending their lines, he j up the attack and recalled the standards.The mn of infantry was followed妙 the cavalry who were to protect the rear in case the enemy harassed their retreat. The legions were burning to pursue them, but Fulvius ordered the“retire”to be sounded, as he considered that ,he had d quite enough in making both the and Hannibal himself realise how little he could d o in their defence: Some authors who describe this battle say that 8ooo of Hannibal's men were killed that day and 3000 Capuans, and that z5 standards were taken from the Carthaginians and 18 from the Capuans. In other accounts I find that the affair serious, there was more excitement and confusion than actual fiahtina. According to these writers the Numidians and Spaniards broke unexpectedly into the Roman lines with the elephants, and these animals, trotting all over the camp, upset the tents and created terrible uproar and panic during which the baggage animals broke their tethers and bolted. To add to the confusion Hannibal sent some men got up as Italians, who could speak Latin, to tell the defenders in the name of the consul that as the camp was lost each man must do his best to escape to the nearest mountains二 The trick was, however, soon detected and frustrated with hea vy loss to the enemy, and the .riven out of the camp with firebrands. In any case, however ，began or ended，this was the last battle f ou&ht before Capua surrendered. The“medix tuticus ，’the 今ma垃strate of Canua.hanpened for that year to be Seppius Loesius, a man of humble birth and slender fortune. The story that owing to a portent which had occurred in his mother usehold she consulted a soothsayer on behalf of her little boy, and he told her that the highest official position in Capua would come to her son. As she was not aware of anything which would justify such expectations she replied, “You are indeed describing a desperate state of things in Capua when you say that such an honour will come to my son." Her jesting reply to what was true prediction turned out itself to be true, for it was only wh en were pressing them sorely and all hope of further resistance was disappearing that Loesius accepted the post. He was the last Capuan to hold it, and he only did so under protest;Capua, he declared, was abandoned and betrayed bV all her foremost citizens.