ἱστορίαι Historiai
Liv. 5.49 The History of Rome, Livy; served verbatim
insolent Gaul threw his sword into the scale, with an exclamation intolerable to Roman ears,“Woe to the. vanquished/” 不L否不;Camillus saves7rr r乓ome.--But gods and men alike preventea,.华“入只臀平争fro粤living努色不势月吵笋people.,By a dispensation of r orrune it came agout Mat aetore the infamous ransom was completed and all the gold weighed out, whilst the dispute was still going on, the Dictator appeared。 on the scene, .. n 11 . and ordered the gold to be carried and the hauls to move off, As they declined to do so, and protested that a definite compact had been made, he informed there that when he was once appointed Dictator no compact was valid which was made by an inferior magistrate w itliouti his,sanction. IIc then warned the Gauls to prepare for battle, and ordered his men to pile their baggage into a heap, get their weapons ready, and ‘,口‘,,,,,一.,,、山~.J‘_ win their country DaCK Dy steei, notr .}w '1 r .,卿gold.. Y },They must keep before their eyes the temples oz the goal, their wives and children, and their country's soi 1',, disfigured by the, ravages1 " '1 . , of everything, in a word., which it was their du却to defend, to recover or to avenge. He then drew up his men in the best formation that the nature of the round,naturally uneven and 气.,才J now half burnt', admitted, and made every provision that his military skill sU t99 ested for securing the advantage of position and movement for his men. The Gauls, alarmed at the turn things had taken, seized their weapons and rushed upon the Romans with more rage than11 It Ir"I 1 0-1 method. Fortune 11aa now "turned, divine aid and human drill were on the side of Rome. At the very first encounter the Gauls were routed as easily as they had conquered at the Alia. In a second and more sustained battle at the eighth milestone on the road to Gabii', where they had rallied from their flight, they were again.乎efeated under the generalship and auspices of Camillus;1 .l 1 , sere the carnage was complete;the camp was taken, and not a returned in triumph to the City, and amongst the homely jests which soldiers are wont to bandy, he was called in no idle words of praise,“A Romulus二’“The Father of his country,"“The Second Founder of the City." Ile had saved his country in war, and now that peace was restored, he proved,一eyond all doubt, to be。 its saviour again, when he prevented. the migration to V““;’毕e tribunes of the plebs were urging this course more strongly, than ever now that*1 10 *1 11 1 the Uity_was些rnt, anti the pie佗s梦ere themselves乎ore.in favour of it. This movement and the pressing appeal which the senate made to hire, riot to abandon the republic while the ositlon of affairs was so doubtful, determined him not to lay pJU own. his dictatorship after his triumph.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

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Filed here — the addresses this episode attests; counted by the house’s first pass
Alia — a candidate entry Camillus — a life Dictator — a candidate entry Romulus — a life

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