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War with Insubres and Boii and Gaesatae
After these defeats the Gauls maintained an unbroken
B. C. 236.
peace with Rome for forty-five years. But when the generation which had witnessed the actual struggle had passed away,
and a younger generation of men had taken their places, filled
with unreflecting hardihood, and who had neither experienced
nor seen any suffering or reverse, they began, as was natural, to
disturb the settlement; and on the one hand
to let trifling causes exasperate them against
Rome, and on the other to invite the Alpine Gauls to join the
fray. At first these intrigues were carried on by their chiefs
without the knowledge of the tribesmen; and accordingly,
when an armed host of Transalpine Gauls arrived at Ariminum,
the Boii were suspicious; and forming a conspiracy against their
own leaders, as well as against the new-comers, they put their
own two kings Atis and Galatus to death, and cut each other
to pieces in a pitched battle. Just then the Romans, alarmed
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