ire together, if he should sound a retreat.
He placed their cavalry in the rear of each division. Having thus
assailed the camp in three different points, he surrounds it; and when
he pressed on from every side, he dislodges from the rampart the
Volscians, not able to sustain his attack. Having then crossed the
fortifications, he expels from the camp the crowd who were dismayed and
inclining towards one direction. Upon this the cavalry, who could not
easily pass over the rampart, having stood by up to that period mere
spectators of the fight, having come up with them whilst flying in
disorder on the open plain, enjoys a share of the victory, by cutting
down the affrighted troops. The slaughter of them as they fled was
great, both in the camp and outside the lines; but the booty was still
greater, because the enemy were scarcely able to carry off their arms
with them; and their entire army would have been destroyed, had not the
woods covered them in their flight.

23. Whilst these transactions are taking place at Antium, the AEqui, in
the mean while, sending forward the main strength of their youth,
surprise the citadel of Tusculum by night, and with the rest of their
army they sit down at no great distance from the walls of Tusculum, so
as to divide the forces of the enemy. This account being quickly brought
to Rome, and from Rome to Antium, affect the Romans not less than if it
was told them that the Capitol was taken; so recent were both the
services of the Tusculans, and the very similitude of the danger seemed
to require a return of the aid that had been afforded. Fabius, giving up
every other object, removes the booty hastily from the camp to Antium.
Having a small garrison there, he hurries on his army by forced marches
to Tusculum. The soldiers were allowed to carry nothing but their arms,
and whatever dressed provision was at hand. The consul Cornelius sends
provisions from Rome. The war was carried on at Tusculum for several
months. With one part of his army the consul assailed the camp of the
AEqui; a part he had given to the Tusculans to recover their citadel.
They never could have made their way to it by force. Famine at length
withdrew the enemy from it. And when they came to this at last, they
were all sent under the yoke by the Tusculans, unarmed and naked. These,
when betaking themselves home by an ignominious flight, were overtaken
by the Roman consul on Algidum and cut off to a man. After this victory,