An enormous crowd went and filled the camp. After auspices and issued orders for the soldiers to arm for battle, he urtereu tnzs prayer: __ ryrnianApollo, guided and inspired by thy will I go forth to destroythe city of Veii, and a tenth part of its spoils I devote to thee. Thee too,1 Queen Juno, who now dwellest in Veii, Ithou wouldst follow us, after our victory, to the舞ech, thatwhich is ours and which will soon be thine, where a temple worthy of thy majesty will receive thee."‘After'1，this. prayer,， finding‘ 11zmsell superior in numbers, n兮attacked_ the city呼ail_ sides, tor终istract the enemies' attention from the impending d哪er of nxe mimic. The v eientmes, all unconscious that their coon: had already been sealed by their own prophets and by oracles inforeign lands, that some of the gods had already been invited 3I斗 L 1vy to their share in‘the spoils, whilst others, called upon in prayerw w i i " . w to leave the计 city, were looking。 rww .w伙new abodes‘伙til早，temples ,of their foes; all unconscious that they were spenaing their last clay, without the slightest suspicionV /Y Y Vt Yr ''砂 that their walls had been undermined and their citadel already filled, with the ene my to the walls, each, as best he co uld wondering1 what hade happened to默 the， Romans, aftexnever stirring from their lines for so many days, now run recklessly upAt this盆:walls as though. struck with sudden工 frenzy.a tale is introduced to the effect that whilst the king of thew.Veientines was. offering sacrifice,。the‘ soothsayer announced. tY妙戈victory呷uld be grante生to fax.叭who had cut out the sacrificial parts of the victim.且“words were beard by the soldiers in the mine, they burst through, seized the partsanal carried them to the Dictator. But in questions of such remote antiquity I should count it sufficient if what hears the stamp1 of probability be twhich, are more fatted tomarvellous than to inspire豁true.stageis not薰menusdeligh while燕 a电rn or deny..，。，，，，，·，，，，· 一the mine, whncn was now mu oxpicxea sodiers，suaceniw 户如，J discharged its armed force in the teznle ref Tuno。which was 占%J inside the citadel of Veil". Some attacked the enemy on the walls from behind, others forced back the bars of the gates, others again set fire to the houses from. which stones and tees were being hurled by women anal slaves. Everything 'resounded with the confused noise. of terrifying threats and shricks of、 despairingv nl ti v w w v w v a + anguish blended with the wailing of women and cxuldren. In a very short time the defenders were driven from the walls and the city Lzates flung otaen. Some rushed in in, dose order, others scaled the deserted walls;the city was filled with双omans; 电hting went on everywhere. At length, after great carnage, the飞hting slackened, and the Dictator ordered the heralds to proclaim that the unarmed were to be spared. That put a stop those who were unar 0nedb egan to surrender, and the soldiers 少spersed with the。环ctator's，permission。 in quest of booty. This far surpassed all, expectation both in its amount and its value, and when the Dictator saw 'it before him bands to heaven and prayed he is reported to have raised histhat if any of the gods deemedbefallen him and the Romans twhich it caused might be allayed the good fortune which lead o be too erect。the 7 ealousv 0ySUCn a calamltyas wouic be least injurious to him and to Rome. The tradition nuns that whils乡办“赞“turning round during this devotion. he stumbledI'll It and_xen·“o Thos悦w妙1u哆ed_ alter the event it appeared