for the return of their embassy with the oracular reply of the Pythxan god, X.VI. War with T arquinii一The Answer, of the Oracle., Previous to their return, and before any way of dealing with the Afban portent was discovered,N" / N Is *r '7"协“new consular tribunes entered-r , V } . } r , ,-I upen。典ce.，上一只借y理ere L._J uZ^吕us J u1w嗯扮·11 uri呼”铁ea只Hxnusw 一for the tourtn，time一la. z)ergius x iaenas, A. IJostumxus Regillensis, P. Cornelius Maluginensis, and A. Manlius. This year a new enemy arose. The people of Tarquinii saw that the Romans were engaged innUzncrous campaigns nst the Volscians at Anxur, where the garrison was blockaded;against the Equi at Labici, who were attaching theRoman colonists, and, in a} these, at Veiiy Falerii, and Capenae, whilst, owing to the contentions between the plebs and the senate, things were no quieter within the walls of the City. Regarding this as afavourable opportunity for mischief , they despatched some li蜘t-armed cohorts to harry the Roman territory, in tine belief that the Romans would either let the 'outrage pass unpunished to avoid hawing another war on their shoulders, or would resent it With a small and weak force. The Romans felt more indignation than anxiety at the raid, and without making any great effort, tool: prompt steps to avenge it. A. Postumius and L. f ulius raised a force, not by a regular levy一 for they were obstructed by the tribunes of the plebs---but consisting mostly of volunteers whom they had induced by strong appeals to come forward. covered possessions from their farms to Rome. Two days were allowed for the owners to identify their DroDerty; what was unclaimed on the third day, most of it belonging to the enemy, was sold “under the O1'1 L.1 r1，，，4 and the proceeds distributed 口口 %r占， 占I amon the soldiers.. T ssues of the other wars especially of that against veii, were still undecided and the Romans were already despairing of success through their own efforts, and were looking to the Fates and;the gods, when the embassy returned from. Delphi with the sentence of the oracle. It was in 。rrnrA wit-l the answer' given妙the V'eientine soothsayer, and ran as follows:一 “SeeAtIts篮燕黔黔;戴宾蕊thy fields Shalt thou disperse it. scattered into rills. Do thou, the v蒸ear an ample giftInto my temple, and the ancestral ritesNow in disuse. see that thou celebrate Anew with all一their wonted pomp.'