ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 4.47 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
camp two males distant froze. the enemy. XLVIL Capture of Labici.一 The arrogance and carelessness which the Roman generals had shown had now passed over to the见qui in the hour of their success: The result appeared in the very first battle. After shaking the enemies' front with ak cavalry charge, the Dictator ordered the standards of the gions to be rapidly advanced, and as one of his standardbearers hesitated, he slew him. So eager were the Romans to engage that the }Edui did not stand the shock. Driven from, the field in headlong flight they made for their camp; the storming of the camp took less time and involved less fighting than the actual battle. The spoils of the captured camp the Dictator gave up to the soldiers. The cavalry who had pursued the enemy as they fled from the camp brought back intelli nce that the whole of the defeated Labicans and a large propo 0n of the Xclui had fled tow_Labici. On the morrow the army marched to ..,.abaci, and after the town was completely invested it was captured and plundered. After leading his victorious army home, the Dictator laiddown his office lust a week after .he had been appointed. Beforethe tribunes of the plebs had time to get up an agitation aboutthe division of the Labican territory, the senate in a full meetingpassed a resolution that a body of colonists should be settled atLabici. One thousand live hundred colonists were sent, ,andeach received two jugera of land. 落wing the capture of Labici the consular.nius Lanatus, L. Servilius Structus, P.s---each for the second time----and Spurius'or the next year they were A. Sempronius:gird time-and M. Papirius Mugilanus and--each for the second tune. During thesefairs were quiet, but, at home there wereagrarian laws.

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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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