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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- The Latin State
- The League with the Latins
- Of the Colonies
- On the Rights of Isopolity and Municipium
- On the Franchise of the Latins
- The League with the Hernicans
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians, down to the end of the Veientine War
- The Office of Warden of the City
- The Internal Feuds of the Patricians
- Of the Public Land and its Occupation
- The Assignments of Land before the time of Sp. Cassius
- The Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius, and his Death
- The seven Consulships of the Fabii
- The Veientine War
- Internal History from the Destruction of the Fabii to the first Pestilence
- The Legend of Coriolanus
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians down to the Peace of 295
- The Æquian War down to the Decemvirate
- Disasters and extraordinary Phenomena
- Civil History of the eleven Years preceding the Decemvirate
- The first Decemvirs, and their Laws
- The second Decemvirate
- The first Year after the Restoration of Freedom
- Civil Commotions down to the Constitution of 311
- The Consular Military Tribunate
- The Censorship
- Civil Affairs from the Year 311 down to the last Veientine War
- On the Pay of the Troops
- The Wars down to the Last with Veii
- The last War with Veii
- The other Wars down to that with the Gauls
- Internal History down to the War with the Gauls
- Physical History from 305 to 365
- On the Gauls, and their Immigration into Italy
- The War with the Gauls, and the Taking of Rome
- On the Olympiad and Year of the Taking of Rome
- Rome after the Departure of the Gauls
- The Wars down to the Reform of 384
- Civil History down to the Year 374
- Appendix I On the Roman Mode of Partitioning Landed Property, and on the Limitatio
- Appendix II On the Agrimensores
The Veientine War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- The Latin State
- The League with the Latins
- Of the Colonies
- On the Rights of Isopolity and Municipium
- On the Franchise of the Latins
- The League with the Hernicans
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians, down to the end of the Veientine War
- The Office of Warden of the City
- The Internal Feuds of the Patricians
- Of the Public Land and its Occupation
- The Assignments of Land before the time of Sp. Cassius
- The Agrarian Law of Sp. Cassius, and his Death
- The seven Consulships of the Fabii
- The Veientine War
- Internal History from the Destruction of the Fabii to the first Pestilence
- The Legend of Coriolanus
- The Wars with the Volscians and Æquians down to the Peace of 295
- The Æquian War down to the Decemvirate
- Disasters and extraordinary Phenomena
- Civil History of the eleven Years preceding the Decemvirate
- The first Decemvirs, and their Laws
- The second Decemvirate
- The first Year after the Restoration of Freedom
- Civil Commotions down to the Constitution of 311
- The Consular Military Tribunate
- The Censorship
- Civil Affairs from the Year 311 down to the last Veientine War
- On the Pay of the Troops
- The Wars down to the Last with Veii
- The last War with Veii
- The other Wars down to that with the Gauls
- Internal History down to the War with the Gauls
- Physical History from 305 to 365
- On the Gauls, and their Immigration into Italy
- The War with the Gauls, and the Taking of Rome
- On the Olympiad and Year of the Taking of Rome
- Rome after the Departure of the Gauls
- The Wars down to the Reform of 384
- Civil History down to the Year 374
- Appendix I On the Roman Mode of Partitioning Landed Property, and on the Limitatio
- Appendix II On the Agrimensores
Summary
This is the war which Dion charges the patricians; with having excited for the sake of employing the commonalty: the Fabii, at that time the heads of the oligarchy, must accordingly have been the authors of this piece of statecraft: this guilt they expiated fearfully, and that too, as not seldom happens, after having done everything to atone for it.
During the first two years, 271 and 272, the hostilities seem to have been of little importance. I have already mentioned the unfortunate turn they took in 273, owing to the internal dissensions of the Romans. The infantry under Cæso Fabius agreed together that their general, whom they did not acknowledge as consul, should gain no triumph in a war which he and his house had stirred up, and which the centuries had not decreed. The cavalry, part of them as patricians, part carried along by the spirit which characterizes such troops, had broken the Etruscan line: but the cohorts refused to follow; and in spite of the consul's vehement exhortations that at least they would maintain their ground, in spite of his entreaties, of his threats, they gave way, abandoned their camp to the enemy, and soon fled in disgraceful confusion to Rome.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 196 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010