ies marched out to battle fully armed, a mutual salutation took
place; that mixing together the soldiers began to join hands, and to
embrace each other with tears; and that the consuls, on seeing the minds
of the soldiers averse from fighting, made a proposition to the senate
concerning the re-establishment of concord. So that among ancient
writers nothing is agreed on, except that there was a mutiny, and that
it was composed. Both the report of this disturbance, and the heavy war
entered into with the Samnites, alienated some states from the Roman
alliance: and besides the treaty of the Latins, which now for a long
time was not to be depended on, the Privernians also by a sudden
incursion laid waste Norba and Setia, Roman colonies in their
neighbourhood.

BOOK VIII.

_The Latins with the Campanians revolt; and ambassadors having been
sent to the senate, they propose that, if they wished for peace,
they should elect one of the consuls from among the Latins. Titus
Manlius, the consul, put his son to death, because he had fought,
though successfully, against the Latins, contrary to orders. The
Romans being hard pressed in the battle, Publius Decius, then
consul with Manlius, devoted himself for the army. The Latins
surrender. None of the young men came out to meet Manlius on his
return to the city. Minucia, a vestal virgin, was condemned for
incest. Several matrons convicted of poisoning. Laws then first
made against that crime. The Ausonians, Privernians, and
Palaepolitans subdued. Quintus Publilius the first instance of a
person continuing in command after the expiration of his office,
and of a triumph decreed to any person not a consul. Law against
confinement for debt. Quintus Fabius, master of the horse, fights
the Samnites with success, contrary to the orders of Lucius
Papirius, dictator; and, with difficulty, obtains pardon, through
the intercession of the people. Successful expedition against the
Samnites._

1. The consuls now were Caius Plautius a second time, and Lucius AEmilius
Mamercinus; when the people of Setia and Norba came to Rome to announce
the revolt of the Privernians, with complaints of the damages received
by them. News were brought that the army of the Volscians, under the
guidance of the people of Antium, had taken post at Satricum. Both wars
fell by lot to Plautius. He, marching first to Pr