The helpless commonwealth, deprived of its head and all its strength, was saved by its guardian deities and the fortune of the City, who made the Volscians and Iqui think more of plunder than of their enemy. For they had no hope of even approaching the walls， of Rome, still less of effecting its capture.r"Y "I' . . r y Y " . h -11 r r 1-2 s he distant view o1 its houses and its hills，so far from alluring them repelled them. Everywhere throughout their remonstrances arose: “Why were theyi .w -a - lily wasting tnexr tune in a waste and deserted land amid p lag ue-stricken beasts and men while they could find places free from infection in the territory of Tusculum with its abundant wealth?” They hastily plucked up their standards,g and by cross--marches t址 ough the fields of Labici they reached the hills of Tusculum. All the violence and storm of war was now turned远this direction. Meantime the Hernici and Latins joined their forces and proceeded to Rome. They were actuated by a feeling not only of pity but also of the disgrace they would incur if they had offered no opposition to their common foe while he was advancing to attack Rome. or had brouzht no succour to those who 产V were their allies. Not finding the enemy there, they followed up their traces from the information supplied them., and met them as they were descending from the hills of Tusculum into the valley of Alba. Here a very one-sided action was fought, and their fidelity to their allies met with little success for the time. The mortality in Rome through the epidemic was not less than that of the allies through the sword. The surviving consul died;amongst other illustrious victims wereM . Valerius and T. Verginius Rutilus, the augurs, and Ser. Sulpicius，the“Curio Maximus." 7 Amongst the common people ther violence of the epidem妙made great ravage. The senate, deprived of all human aid, badethe people betake themselves to prayers;they with their wives and children were ordered to go as suppliants and entreat the gods to be gracious. SumSummoned QonedbyP‘ ublic man's misery was constraining h 1m to do,. they crowded all the temples."., ., ,- , , , .,，Prostrate matrons, sweep-n i琴with甲eir disnevelle9_hair万he， Z嘿pie noors,犷er早ev宁少 where unwormg, pardon xrom onendea heaven。and entreating ’一J、.人户、J that an end might be put to the pestilence.