All these preparations were completed with extra-ordinary despatch. The consul Gn. Julius was left in charge ofthe defences of the City; L. Julius, the Master of the Horse, tookcommand of the reserves to meet any sudden emergency, andto prevent operations from being delayed through inadequacyof supplies at the front. As the war was such a serious one, theDictator vowed, in the form of words prescribed by the PontifexMw}i,mus, A. Cornelius, to celebrate the Great Games if he were victorious. He formed the army into two divisions, one of which he assigned to the consul Quinctius, and their joint forceadvanced up to the enemies' position. As they saw that the hostile camps were separated by a short distance from each other, they also formed separate camps, about a mile from theenemy, the Dictator fixing his in the direction of Tusculum,the consul nearer Lanuvium. The巍rmies had thus separate entrenched positions,with a plain between them. broad enough not only for smallskirmishes, but for both armies to be drawn out in battle. order. Ever since the camps had confronted each other there had been no cessation of small thts，and the Dictator was ouite content ‘.j r占 for his men to snatch their strength against the enemy, in order issues of these contests they might entertain: the hope of a decisive and final victory. The enemy, hopeless of winning a regular battle, determined to stake everything on the chances of a night attack on the consul's camp. The shout which suddenly arose not only startled the consul's outposts and the whole army, but even woke the Dictator. Everything depended on Dromm action:the consul showed equal, courage and coolness;part of hays troops relntorced the guards at the camp gates, the rest lined the entrenchments. As the Dictator's camp was not attacked, it was easier for him to see what had to be done. Sun1aorts were at once sent to the consul under So. Postumius Albus，lieutenant-General, and the刀ictator m person with a portion of his force made for a place away from the actual fighting, from which to make而attack6。the enemy's rear. :He left Q. Sulpicius, lieutenant-general, in charge of the camp, and gave the command of the cavalry to M. Fabius, lieutenant-general, with orders not to move their troops before daylight as it was difficult to handle them in the confusion of a night attack. Besides taking every measure which any other general of prudence and energy would have taken under the circumstances, the Dictator gave a instance of his couraze and zeneralshi-D, which nraxse, ior. on ascertaxninz that the enemvn with the greater part of his force, he sent M。Ge picked cohorts to storm it. The defenders were thinking more of the issue of their comrades' dangerous enterprise than of taking precautions for their own safety, even their outposts and picket-duty were neglected, and he stormed and captured the camp almost before the enemy realised that it was attacked. When the Dictator saw the smoke--the agreed signal-he called out that the enemy's camp was taken, and ordered the news to be spread everywhere.