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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. [2] 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 [p. 187]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. [3] 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. [4] 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. [5] 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. [6] After this victory, having marched back1 his army to Columen, (that is the name of the place,) he pitches his camp. The other consul also, as soon as the Roman walls [7] ceased to be in danger, the enemy being defeated, set out from Rome. Thus the consuls, having entered the territories of the enemies on two different sides, strenuously vie with each other in depopulating the Volscians on the one hand, the Aequi on the other. I find in some writers that the people of Antium revolted2 the same year. That Lucius Cornelius, the consul, conducted that war and took the town, I would not venture to affirm for certain, because no mention is made of the matter among the older writers.

1 Exercitu relicto is the ordinary reading. Crevier observes that reducto is the more correct.

2 This account does not seem to be correct. See Niebuhr ii. p. 254.

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