at the enemy possessed too little spirit for him
to wait in tedious expectation of victory under the circumstances, after
exhorting his soldiers not to waste themselves by tedious labours, as
[they had done] when besieging Veii, that the victory was in their
hands, he attacked the walls on every side, amid the great alacrity of
the soldiers, and took the town by scalade. The Volscians, having thrown
down their arms, surrendered themselves.

9. But the general's thoughts were fixed on a higher object, on Antium:
[he knew] that that was the great aim of the Volscians, and main source
of the late war. But because so strong a city could not be taken without
great preparations, engines and machines, leaving his colleague with the
army, he set out for Rome, in order to advise the senate to have Antium
destroyed. In the middle of his discourse, (I suppose that it was the
wish of the gods that the state of Antium should last a longer time,)
ambassadors came from Nepete and Sutrium, soliciting aid against the
Etrurians, urging that the time for giving them aid would soon pass by.
Thither did fortune avert the force of Camillus from Antium; for as
those places were situate opposite Etruria, and were barriers or gates
as it were on that side, both they had a wish to get possession of them,
whenever they meditated any new enterprise, and the Romans to recover
and secure them. Wherefore the senate resolved to treat with Camillus,
that he would relinquish Antium and undertake the Etrurian war. The city
troops, which Quinctius had commanded, are decreed to him. Though he
would have preferred the army which was in the Volscian territory, as
being tried and accustomed to him, he made no objection: he only
demanded Valerius as his associate in command. Quinctius and Horatius
were sent against the Volscians, as successors to Valerius. Furius and
Valerius, having set out from the city to Sutrium, found one part of the
town already taken by the Etrurians, and on the other part, the
approaches to which were barricaded, the townsmen with difficulty
repelling the assault of the enemy. Both the approach of aid from Rome,
as also the name of Camillus, universally respected both with the enemy
and the allies, sustained their tottering state for the present, and
afforded time for bringing them relief. Accordingly Camillus, having
divided his army, orders his colleague to lead round his troops to that
side which the enemy already possessed, and to a