ished
them not to be true.

22. In the following year the Papirii, Spurius and Lucius, new military
tribunes, led the legions to Velitrae; their four colleagues in the
tribuneship, Servius Cornelius Maluginensis a fourth time, Quintus
Servilius, Servius Sulpicius, Lucius AEmilius a fourth time, being left
behind to protect the city, and in case any new commotion should be
announced from Etruria; for every thing was apprehended from that
quarter. At Velitrae they fought a successful battle against the
auxiliaries of the Praenestines, who were almost greater than the number
of colonists themselves; so that the proximity of the city was both the
cause of an earlier flight to the enemy, and was their only refuge after
the flight. The tribunes refrained from besieging the town, both because
[the result] was uncertain, and they considered that the war should not
be pushed to the total destruction of the colony. Letters were sent to
Rome to the senate with news of the victory, expressive of more
animosity against the Praenestine enemy than against those of Velitrae. In
consequence, by a decree of the senate and an order of the people, war
was declared against the Praenestines: who, in conjunction with the
Volscians, took, on the following year, Satricum, a colony of the Roman
people, by storm, after an obstinate defence by the colonists, and made,
with respect to the prisoners, a disgraceful use of their victory.
Incensed at this, the Romans elected Marcus Furius Camillus a seventh
time military tribune. The colleagues conjoined with him were the two
Postumii Regillenses, Aulus and Lucius, and Lucius Furius, with Lucius
Lucretius and Marcus Fabius Ambustus. The Volscian war was decreed to
Marcus Furius out of the ordinary course, Lucius Furius is assigned by
lot from among the tribunes his assistant; [which proved] not so
advantageous to the public as a source of all manner of praise to his
colleague: both on public grounds, because he restored the [Roman]
interest which had been prostrated by his rash conduct; and on private
grounds, because from his error he sought to obtain his gratitude rather
than his own glory. Camillus was now in the decline of life, and when
prepared at the election to take the usual oath for the purpose of
excusing himself on the plea of his health, he was opposed by the
consent of the people: but his active mind was still vigorous within his
ardent breast, and he enjoyed all his faculties entire, and