nd exact the penalty, due for
yourselves having been violated, and for us who have been deceived
through the appeal made to your divinity." The Praenestines sustained not
the attack of cavalry, or infantry; their ranks were broken at the first
charge and shout. Then when their line maintained its ground in no
quarter, they turn their backs; and being thrown into consternation and
carried beyond their own camp by their panic, they stop not from their
precipitate speed, until Praeneste came in view. There, having been
dispersed in consequence of their flight, they select a post for the
purpose of fortifying it in a hasty manner; lest, if they betook
themselves within the walls, the country should be burned forthwith, and
when all places should be desolated, siege should be laid to the city.
But when the victorious Romans approached, the camp at the Allia having
been plundered, that fortress also was abandoned, and considering the
walls scarcely secure, they shut themselves up within the town of
Praeneste. There were eight towns besides under the sway of the
Praenestines. Hostilities were carried round to these also; and these
being taken one after the other without much difficulty, the army was
led to Velitrae. This also was taken by storm. They then came to
Praeneste, the main source of the war. That town was obtained, not by
force, but by capitulation. Titus Quinctius, being once victorious in a
pitched battle, having taken also two camps belonging to the enemy, and
nine towns by storm, and Praeneste being obtained by surrender, returned
to Rome: and in his triumph brought into the Capitol the statue of
Jupiter Imperator, which he had conveyed from Praeneste. It was dedicated
between the recesses of Jupiter and Minerva, and a tablet fixed under
it, as a monument of his exploits, was engraved with nearly these words:
"Jupiter and all the gods granted, that Titus Quinctius, dictator,
should take nine towns." On the twentieth day after the appointment he
abdicated the dictatorship.

30. An election was then held of military tribunes with consular power;
in which the number of patricians and plebeians was equal. From the
patricians were elected Publius and Caius Manlius, with Lucius Julius;
the commons gave Caius Sextilius, Marcus Albinius, and Lucius Antistius.
To the Manlii, because they had the advantage of the plebeians in family
station, and of Julius in interest, the province of the Volscians was
assigned out of the o