soldiers from Antium who had come after the battle, too late to help, were sent back almost w ignominy. 叮. Pest汤nce in Raw,*一甲卜户。 the elections were held, and L. ;Ebutius and F. Servilius were chosen as consuls;they entered upon office on I 0压cen。知gust:，which was then the ment of the consular二 Theseason was a trying one and that year happened to pestilential one both for the C 1 and the rural districts, the，flocks and herds quite as mu 月tC yh as for human beings. Thevoted by the crowding into theof raidtheir cattle throughof animals of all kinds became othe unaccustomed smell, and tldwellingthey were intolive heat which made it impbrought into contact with eacrhelped to spread the disease.Whilst they were hardly able tenvoys from the Llthisand Volscians had united their述 T, and were ravag吨their frontier with an immense army "the allies of Rome not only saw in the thinly-attended senate an_indication of the widespread suffering caused by the， epidemic, but they hadq 1 .7 9 7 1 7 Y i7 'T1^.also to carry back the melancholy reply that the Hernici must, in conjunction. . 7 7 . 9 . 7 i 7 " "r rray with thet,.毕移ns, u开臀rtake their尸wa o.ete. 7 .T..钾“·，"些rough a sudden vlszzazion oz the angry gods, the City opt Rome was being ravaged by pestilence; but if any respite from the evil should cone, then she would send succour to her allies as she had done the year before and on all previous occasions. The allies departed, carrying home in answer to the gloomy tidings they had brought a still more gloomy response, for they had in their own strength to sustain a war which they had hardly been equal to when supported by the power of Rome. The enemy no longer confined himself to the country of the Hemici, he went on to destroy the fields of Rome, which were already lying waste without having suffered the ravages of war. He met no one, not even an unarmed peasant, and after overrunning the country, abandoned as it was by its defenders and event旦evoid of，all cultivation, he reached the third milestone,4 . Irom奴,ome on tree Gaaian road. Ebutius, the consul, was dead, his colleague Servilius was still breathing, with little hope1 .1只recovery, most of the。 leading. , ,r . w men were Gown, the majority of the senators, nearly ail me men of militarv aye, so that not onlv was their strength uneaual to ，了。。.，，1，。，。，丫r。1。----an expeditionary force such as the position ox afairs required. ，，·，‘t，，1，‘，尸.，。，:，户，、占户一1 rout 1t hardy allowed ox their mounting guara xor home defence. The duty of sentinel was discharged in person b.t y习 those of the senators whose age and health allowed them do so; the Adiles of the plebs were responsible for their inspection. On these magistrates had devolved the consular authority and the supreme control of affairs.