Cato celebrates his triumph.-L. Valerius, who was still in command in Gaul, fought a hotly contested action with the Insubrians and the Bon";the latter had crossed the Po in order to rouse the Insubrians to arms. His colleague M. Porcius Cato celebrated his triumph over the iards during this period. In the procession there were carne 2 K.ooo Dounds of unwrouaht silver, 12,100 silver denarii v，1飞J 540 of Oscan coinage, and 1 Zoo pounds' weight of gold. To each of the infantry soldiers he distributed 27o ases and treble the amount to the cavalry. Indecisive battle with the Boii.--On arriving in his province Tiberius Sempronius marched his troops first of all into the country of the Boii. Boiorix was their chief at the time, and after he and his two brothers had induced the whole nation to resume hostilities he fixed his camp in an exposed position in the open country to show that they were prepared to fight if they were invaded. When the consul became aware of the numbers and confidence of the enemy he sent to his colleague asking him, if he thought he could do so, to hasten to his assistance and he V 755 D would妙one means or another delay an action till he came. The same reason which led the consul to delay made the Gauls seek an early decision, for their confidence was increased by their enemy's hesitation and they determined to engage him before the two consuls united their forces. For two days, however, they merely stood ready for battle in case there was any advance from the Roman camp;on the third day they went up to the rampart and attacked the camp simultaneously on all sides. The consul ordered his men instantly to seize their we ap ons and for a few minutes kept them standing under arms, pa ，rtl y to encourage the unthinking confidence of the enemy and also to allow of his distributing the troops at the different gates from which each body was to make the sortie. The two 1 egions were ordered to advance through the principal gates, but the Gauls blocked the exits in such dense masses that they could not emerge. The struggle went on for a long time in the confined space; it was not so much fighting with their right hands and swords as pushing with their shield s and bodies the Romans trying to force a way for their standards, the Gauls endeavouring to get into the camp, or at all events to keep the Romans from getting out. Neither the one side nor the other could make any advance until Q. Victorius, a centurion of the first rank, and C. Atinus, a military tribune, the former belonging to the second id what had often been tried legion, the latter to the fourth, din desperate struggles, and snatcbearers flung them amongst therecover the standards the men o hing the standards from the