The Dictator. after ridinz round and reconnoitring as well as he could in the night the position and shape of the camp, commanded the military tribunes to give orders for the baggage一0勺乡叩1工ecte tobecollectedtogether and thebet soldiers with their arms and palisades to resume their places in the ranks. orders were carried out. Then ，keeping the formation in which they had marched, the whole armv. in one long column. sur rounded the enemies' lines. to raise a shout;alter raising the shout each man was to dig a trench in front of him and fix his palisade. As soon as the order reached the men, the signal followed. The men obeyed the order, and the shout rolled round the enemies' line and over them into the consul's camp. In the one it created panic, in the other rejoicing. The Romans recognised their fellowcitizens' shout, and congratulated one another on help being at hand. They even made sorties from their outposts against the enemy and so increased their alarm,. The consul said there must be., no delay, that shout meant that their friends had not only .arrived. but were engaged, he should be surprised if the outside of the enemies' lines was not already attacked. He ordered his men to seize their arms and follow him. A nocturnal battle began. They notified the Dictator's legions by their shouts that on their side too the action had commenced. The Equi were already making preparations to prevent themselves from being surrounded when the enclosed enemy began the battle;to prevent their lines from being broken through, they 4L1111GU Il V111 411VaG W 1AV W Gl G 111 V IZ;a L1116 L11G111 LV 1181118 L.ae enemywithin, and so left the night free for the Dictator to complete hiswork. The fighting with the consul went on till dawn. 13ythis time they were completely invested by the Dictator, andwere hardly able to keep up the fight against one army. Thentheir lines were attacked by Quinctius' army, who had completedthe circumvallation and resumed their arms. They had, now to ma 'n tain a fresh conflict， the previous one wasain in no way slackened. Under the stress of the double attack they turned from fiehtina to supplication, and implored the Dictator on the one side and the consul on the other not to make their extermination the price of victory, but to allow them. to surrender their arms and depart. The consul referred them to the Dic and he, in his anzer. det erm ined to humiliate his 气曰争 r enemy. He ordered Grac chu: Cloelius and others 力已Qt 1c’eff:01 占七.:e，钾 )r，ed·31rof princ功al Inen to be brought to him in chains，and the v r Corbio to be evacuated. He told the zEqui he did not require their blood, they were at libertv toden__1_:'- ut LeParz; ou , as an open w人砂J admission of the defeat on of their nation, they would have to pass under the yoke. This was made of three