he barbarians were slain in the field, and great
numbers in the storming of the camp. The rest dispersing, making chiefly
for Apulia, saved themselves from the enemy, both by continuing their
flight to a great distance, as also because panic and terror had
scattered them very widely. A triumph was decreed to the dictator with
the concurrence of the senate and commons. Scarcely had he as yet
finished the war, when a more violent disturbance awaited him at home;
and by great struggles the dictator and the senate were overpowered, so
that the measures of the tribunes were admitted; and the elections of
the consuls were held in spite of the resistance of the nobility, at
which Lucius Sextius was made consul, the first of plebeian rank. And
not even was that an end of the contests. Because the patricians refused
to give their approbation, the affair came very near a secession of the
people, and other terrible threats of civil contests: when, however, the
dissensions were accommodated on certain terms through the interference
of the dictator; and concessions to the commons were made by the
nobility regarding the plebeian consul; by the commons to the nobility,
with respect to one praetor to be elected out of the patricians, to
administer justice in the city. The different orders being at length
restored to concord after their long-continued animosity, when the
senate were of opinion that for the sake of the immortal gods they would
readily do a thing deserving, and that justly, if ever on any occasion
before, that the most magnificent games should be performed, and that
one day should be added to the three; the plebeian aediles refusing the
office, the young patricians cried out with one accord, that they, for
the purpose of paying honour to the immortal gods, would readily
undertake the task, so that they were appointed aediles. And when thanks
were returned to them by all, a decree of the senate passed, that the
dictator should ask of the people two persons as aediles from among the
patricians; that the senate should give their approbation to all the
elections of that year.

BOOK VII.

_Two magistrates were added, the praetorship and curule aedileship. A
pestilence rages in the city, which carries off the celebrated
Furius Camillus. Scenic representations first introduced. Curtius
leaps on horseback completely armed into a gulf in the forum. Titus
Manlius, having slain a Gaul in single comb