The Dictator issued an order for all to muster' outside the Colline gate by daybreak. Every man strong enou沙to bear arms was present. The standards were quickly brou沙t to the Dictator from the treasury· while these arrangements were being made, the enemy withdrew to the foot of the hills. The Dictator followed them with an army eager for battle, and engaged them. not far from Nomentum. The Etruscan le乡ons were routed and driven into Fidenae;the Dictator surrounded the place with lines of circumvallation. But, owing to its elevated position and strong fortifications.the city could not be carried by assault,, V ,白r.口 and a blockade was quite ineffective, for there was not only corn enough for their actual necessities, but even for a lfrom what had been. stored up beforehand. Soeither storming the place or starving it into surrend avish supplyall hope of er was abannatural strength.， Hec determined to carry afrom that side to the citadel. He formed his念、throughinto four divisions, to take turns in the fighting, and by， keeping up ayY YY 1Y .. ti 1 constant attack UDon the walls in all directions，day and niLxht. -·一占...一尸，‘，，1.J_产 he prevented the enemy trom noticnng the work. At last the hill was tunnelled throu gh and the way lay open from the Roman camp up to the cit adeL whilst the attention of the Etruscans was being diverted by feigned attacks from. their real danger, the shouts of the enemy above their heads showed them that the city was taken. In that year the censors C. Furius Pacilus and M. Geganius Macerinus passed 13 the government building on the Campus Martius. and the census of the people was made there for the J first time.