being atter all carried lay a mine and not by direct assault. ex委XZII. Although the portents had been。 averted by dueexpiation and the answers given by the soothsayer and the oracle were matters of common knowledge, and ail that man could do had been dones by the1 selectiongreatest of all commanders--notwithstandin苏1M. Furius, the11 this, when the capture of Veii was announced in :Rome, after so many years of undecided warfare and numerous defeats, the rejoicing was as great as_ if there had been no hope of success._.、 Anticipating the order of the senate, all the temples were tilled with,双oman mothers offering， thanks勿ings to份，gods..The senate orderedw that the Dublzc thanksgivxngs should be continued for four claws。 J.件..+ "..r r尹 a longer period than for any previous war. The arrival of the Dictator, too, whom all classes poured out to meet, was welcomed icy a greater concourse than that of any general before. His triumph went fax beyond the usual anode of celebrating the day; himself the most conspicuous object of all, he was drawn into the City by a team of white horses, which men thought un.becona.- Ing even fox a mortal man, let alone a Roman citizen. They Saw withsuPerstitiousalarxntheDi ctatox putting himselfwith superstitious alarm the I on a level in his equipage with Jupiter and Sol, and this one circumstance made his triumph more brilliant than popular. A几er this. he signed: a contract勿building the templey %,r伽 t :: nPle of (,queen J"uno on the Aventine and dedicated one to Maxus the Mother. After having thus discharged his duties to gods and menhe resigned his Dictatorship. _Subsequently a difficulty arose about the offering to Apollo."w7 y . 7 7 f A ti . H N Y +V . } t.;amillus stated that he. naci vowed: a。 tenth 01 the spoils to the deity, and tree college of pontitts decided that tae people must fulfil their religious obligation,5 But it was riot easy to find way of ordering the people to restore their share of booty so that the due proportion might be set apart for sacred purposes· At length recourse was had hat seemef. . ,.4the smoot呼st plan， namely, that any one who wi 呼a扮discharge the obligationw for himself and his household should make‘ a valuation of his share and contribute the value of a tenth of 'it to the treasury, in order that out of the proceeds a golden might be made, worthy of the grandeur of the temple and the august divinity of the god, and such as the honour of theRornan people demanded.w .. r ., , r This contribution still further es tranged the teeixngs of rne plebe tans from Camillus. During these occurrences envoys from the Volscians and Xquip rrti. came to sue for1.，Pease. They succeeded’“obtaming it, not so