and our victory."潺翼the battleL. Reception of the News in Rome.--The nightNero started off at a more rapid pace than he had come, and insix days reached his camp and was once more in touch withHanniba1.31 His march was not watched by the same crowds as before, because no messengers preceded him, but his return was welcomed with such extravagant delight that people were almost beside themselves for joy. As to thestateoffeelinginthe state of Rome, it is impossible to describe it, or to picture the anxiety ，J‘r Withwhichthecit让enswaitedforthewith which the citizens waited result of the battle or the enthusiasm which the report of the victory aroused. Never from the day when the news came that Nero had commenced march had any senator left the House, or the people the Forum from sunrise to sunset. The matrons.as they could give no active help, betook themselves to prayers and intercessions; they thronged all the shrines and assailed the with supp lications and vows. Whilst the citizens were in this state of anxious suspense, a vague rumour was started to the effect that two troopers belonging to Narnia had gone from the battle-field to the camp there which was holding the road to Umbria with the announcement that the enemy had been cut to pieces. People listened to the rumour, but they could not take itto in, the news was too great, too joyful for them to realise or accept as true, and the very speed at which it had travelled made it less credible, for the battle was reported as h awing taken place only two days previously. Then followed a despatch from L. Manlius Acidinus. reuortina the arrival of the two troopers in his cam p 声1峪J When this despatch was carried through the Forum to the praetor's tribunal the senators left their seats, and such was the excitement of the people as they pushed and struggled round the door of the senate-house that the courier could not get near it. He was dragged away by the crowd, who demanded with loud shouts that the despatch should be read from the rostra before it was read in the senate-house. At last the magistrates succeeaea in Iorcma back and restraininL7 the populace. and It Decam兮.p只S补。‘宁for a长，to snare。 in the joyous news they were so impatient to learn. 1 ne despatch was react first in thQ senate-house, and then in the Assembly. It was listened to with different feelings according to each man's temperament: 、口护1