ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 5.26 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
The Conquest of Fal erii.---In the election of consular tribunes the patricians succeeded by the utmost exertions in securing the return ofM.Furius Camillus. They,pretended that in view of the wars they were providing themselves with a general.Y,their real object was to get a man. who' would oppose.w; r Y ti Y "Y 7r} 7 me corrupt policy of the plebeian tribunes, His comrades in the tribunesrw "Y吻were L.^r "r 1. ,和rius冷州l呼s泛or the sixthd" ,M醉臀 一协·/L' millus,与·v alerius ruwicola, a. rostumius, and r. Cornelius--for the second time. At the, beginning, of the year the tribunes of the plebs made no move until Uamxllus left for operations against the r aliscans,. the theatre of war assigned to him. This delay took the w heartout of their agitation, whilst Camillus, the adversary whoa they=most dreaded, was gaining fresh glory amongst the Faliscans.At first the enemy kept within their walls, thinking this thesafest course, but by devastating their, fields and burning theirfarms he compelled them to come outside their city. They,were afraid to go very far,, and fixed their camp about a mile away;the only thing which gave them any sense of security was the difficulty of approaching it, a8 all the country round WaS rough. and broken, and the roads narrow in some parts, in others steep. Camillus, however, had gained information from a prisoner captured in. the: neighbourhood, and made him act as guide.,After, breaking, up his camp ire the dead of night,、 hewr w w . , t w w showect nimselt at daybreak in a positiongonsiderably higher than the enemy. TheRomans of the third lines began to et月钊 本‘e产士 re e:ea 口r本‘ thrahe e奋儿n re‘‘ 邸m迁 衣‘丫士.r~ 0:君r上 ht(, Le.叭th art·21n姗 m记厂 y已比 stt且 od川;ht 恶Lndsi b泊a a已﹂ 诚nch:Pan 众C e 科军Lt.翻 .卜以.2 曲heed the Faliseans that in their disorderly flight they were carried past t卜it own camp, w7 I" w呼c气was nearer to、 t7 '1 '1 '1呼nz, and ma,w尽e for their city. Many were xulea and wounded bczore they count get inside their gates. The camp was taken, the booty sold, and the proceeds poof the soldi默over to the quaestors,but they were overawe黯e intense indignationthe sternness of their general's dicarne time留ne, and thougadmired it.嗡y}c1珍tcd his firmness, at thewas now invested anal regular siege--works were constructed. For some time the townsmen used to attack the Roman outposts whenever they saw an ,ounortunitv, and frequent skirmishes took place. Time wen七 on and hope incunea to nextner sine: er supplies had been previously collected, and· were better provisioned than the besiegers.The med likely to be ,as long as it had been at Veii, had riot fortune given the Roman ,commanw * , w妙an opportunity of disp'1 7 '1 7妙吵 that greatness of mind which has already been. proved in aeeas of war, and so secured ,l-iim. an. early victory. XXvf工.It was the custom of the Faliscans to employ the

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