Catture and .Destruction of Fidenae.-Verv Great was one alarm in 1tome. }i-ne army, cemoransea uy its III-success, was recalled from. Veii;an entrenched camp was formed in front of the Colline gate, the walls were manned, the shops and law courts closed, and a cessation of all business in, the Forum ordered. The whole City wore the appearance of a camp. The Dictator despatched criers throu沙the streets to summon the anxious citizens to an Assembly. When they were gathered together he reproached them for allowing their feelings to be so swayed by slight changes of fortune that, after meeting with an insignificant reverse, due not to the courage of the enemy or the ,cowardice of the Roman armv, but simDly to want of harmonv amongst the generals, they snouia De in a state ox panic over the Veientines ，who had been defeated six times，and Fidenae, which had been, captured. almost more frequently than it had been .attacked. Both the Romans and the enemy were the same that ;they lead been for so many centuries,, their courage, their prowess, their arms were wh it they had always been. They had as Dictator the Sarne Mamercus }Emilius who at defeated the combined forces of Veii and Fidenae supported by the Faliscans; the Master of the Horse would in future battlesbe the same .A. Cornelius who killed Lars Tolumnius, king ofVeii, before the eyes of the two armies and carried the s oliaophna to the temple of Jupiter Feretrius. They must take uparms, remembering that on their side were triumphs and thespoils of victory, on the side of the enemy, the crime against the1,2.txr of ,nations in the assassination of the ambassadors and the massacre of the colonists at Fidenae in a tune of peace, a brok truce,‘seventh unsuccessful revolt remembering all this, thti Y'YT1 Y . 7 "I7 s, must take up arms. w hen once they were m -touch with to enemy, he was confident that the guilt-stained foe would not long rej oice over the disgrace that had overtaken the Roman army, and the people of Rome would see how much better service was rendered to the republic by those who had, for the third time. nominated him Dictator, than by those who had cast a slu r upon his second dictatorship because he had deprived the censors of their autocratic power. After reciting the usual 而ws, he marched out and fixed his camp a mile and a half on this side of Fidenae, with the hills on his right and the Tiber on his left. He ordered T. Quinctius to secure the hills and to seize, by a concealed movement, the ridge in the enemies' rear.' on the following day, the Etruscans advanced to battle in high spirits at their success the previous day, which had been due rather to good luck than good fighting. After waiting a short time till the scouts reported that Quinctius had gained the height near the citadel of Fidenae, the Dictator ordered the attack and led the infantry at a quick double against the enemy. He gave instructions to the Master of the Horse not to beginj fighting till lie got orders;。 when he needed., .. , -911 , . ,. . ,呼assistance of the cavalry he wouicx ,give him the signal, then ne must take his part in the action, inspired by the memory of his combat with Tolumnius, of the spolia opima, and of Romulus and Jupiter Feretrius. The legions charged with great impetuosity. The Romans expressed their burning hatred in words as much as in deeds; they called the Fidenates“traitors," the Veientines “‘brigands,"“breakers of truces,'’“stained with the horrible murder of the ambassadors and the blood of Roman colonists," “faithless as allies, cowardly as soldiers."