Reverses of the Gauls and Etruscans.一 Friends and foes were alike persuaded that nowhere else was there at that tine so, great a0 IV It .,roaster of war. ,.after the, council,broke up. 1‘theyw refreshed themselves and waited. wrv'.ww .,eagerly for the signal toy1 r .1 . W ..。“ given.__岁hen 1t wa号母ve几in,势““衅移件of t呼.night they 妙re at the gates readyn .w于or t;amfaus:书ter marc职城n哆rest'II distance from the city tnev came uT)on the canna oz the uauls,
J袱声门.r unprotected, as he had said, and carelessly open on every side. They raised a tremendous shout and rushed in;there was no battle, it was everywhere sheer massacre;the Gauls, defenceless and dissolved in sleep, were butchered as they lay. Those in the furthest part of the camp, however, startled from their1 1 Y . 7 1 .11 , . ''It ,1 1 . lays, and not knowing whence or what the attach was, ned fn terror, and some actually rushed, unawares amongst thelr assa ilants.ssal .A considerable number were carried into 七he neighbourhood of .Annum, where they Were surrounded by the townsmen.
A similar slaughter of Etruscans too )h plac e in the district of ved, So far were these people from feeli鳍 City which for almost lour centuries naa peen tnexr neignL)ou几 and was now crushed by an enemy never seen or heard of before, that thev chose that time for making foravs into Roman territorv,
,,砂-.。。…".,+。尸一。、、.气 Y and a少r loading themselves with ptY `" . w w w w w w毕nuer, iP件endw to attack^w^% v efx, the Dulwarx ana only surviving hope ox the八oman name. The Roman soldiers at veil had。 seen then. dispersed through7 t- 11 It Is P, 11 0. It ''t . I- VII .11 VIA* "the nelds,and afterwards, with their forces collected,driven 二,_·,厂。,,。,r,,。,‘,,。‘。、vn inexr DooWfn front of tnern, 'i'neir nrst feeiings were; those of despair, then, indignation and rage tools possession of then, “Are even theEtruscans ”they exclaimed,“from whom we have diverted the arms of Gaul. on to ourselves, to find amusement in our disasters?”With difficulty they restrained thernw selves from attacking them,: Caedicius, a centurion whore they had placed in command, induced them to defer operations tillnightfall. The only thing lacking was a commander likea,millus, in all other respects the ordering of the attack and the success achieved were the same as if he had been present,Not content with this, they made some prisoners who had sur-vived the night's massacre act as sides, and, led by them, surprised another body of Tuscans at the salt works and inflicted
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The History of Rome, Livy — translated by Rev. Canon Roberts, 1912
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