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etiam urbem occupa- they likewife took the city. verunt; neque defen- Nor could any thing be dedi quidquam nifi Ca- fended but the Capitol : pitolium potuit: quod which after they had becum diu obsediffent, & fieged a long time, and jam Romani fame la- the Romans were now borarent, a Camillo, pinched by famine, Camil quiin vicina civitate lus, who was in banish. exfulabat, Gallis fu- ment in a neighboring city, perventum eft, gravif- came upon the Gauls, and fimeque victi funt; they were overthrown with postea tamen, accepto great lofs; *however afetiam auro, ne Capito- terwards,receiving a good lium obfiderent, recef- fum of gold, not to befiege ferunt fed fequutus the Capitol, they went a. eos Camillus ita cecidit, way; but Camilius followut & aurum, quod his ing them, fo routed them, datum fuerat, & omnia, that he both recovered the quæ ceperant,militaria gold, which had been givfigna, revocaret. tertium triumphans urbem ingreffus eft & appellatus fecundus Romulus, quafi & ipfe patriæ conditor.

Ita en them, and all the military standards they had taken. So he entered the city a third time in triumph, and was called a fecond Romulus, as if he likewife was the builder of the city.

EUTROPII

It is not at all likely that they would continue the fiege, and raife it only upon the payment of a great fum of gold, after they had been severely beat by Camillus. Other authors represent the matter otherways and tell us that Camillus came upon them, whiift the gold was weighing off, and quite spoiled their market,by finding other work for them than what they were about. See Livy.

EUTROPII

BREVIARIUM

HISTORIÆ ROMANÆ.

LIBER II.

ANNO ccclxv. ab

I N the year 365 from urbe condita, the building of the city,

post captam autem pri- but the first after its being mo, dignitates mutatæ taken, the government was funt &, pro duobus altered, and instead of two Confulibus, facti Tri- Confuls, military Tribunes, buni militares, Confu. with Confular power, were lari poteftate. Hinc made. From this time the jam cæpit Romana res Roman ftate begun to grow. crefcere. Nam Ca- For Camillus that year millus eo anno Vol- fubdued the nation of the fcorum civitatem, quæ Volfci, which had carried per lxx. annos bellum on a war against the Rogefferat, vicit, & E- mans for † 70 years, as al+ quorum urbem & Su- fo the city of the Equi and trinorum, atque om- the Sutrini; and made

nes,

* Eutropius is here a little out in his chronology. Rome was taken by the Gauls in the year 366. The military Tribunes too with Confular authority had been introduced fome time before, which was occafioned by a great struggle made by the Commons for the Confulate, who at laft carried their point; upon which thefe military Tribunes were qui'e laid afide.

This is likewife a mistake: The war lafted 107 years.

The city of Surium in Tuscany, about 20 miles from Rome, had been taken by the other Thufcans, but was recovered out of their hands by the Romans, and restored to the Sutriai.

nes, deletis eorum ex- himself master of them all, ercitibus, occupavit, & cutting off their armies, tres fimul triumphos and had three tri§ umphs together.

egit.

2. Titus etiam Quintius Cincinnatus, Præneftinos, qui ufque ad urbis Romæ portas bello venerant, perfequutus, ad flumen Alliam vicit, & civitates, quæ fub ipfis agebant, Romanis adjunxit; ipfum Prænefte aggref. fus, in deditionem accepit; quæ omnia ab eo gefta funt viginti diebus, triumphufque ipfi decretus.

2. T. Quintius Cincinnatus likewife purfuing the +Præneftini, who had come in a hoftile manner up to the gates of the city Rome, conquered them at the river Allia,and added the cities, which were under them, to the Romans, and attacking Prænefte itself, took it by furrender; all which things were done by him in twenty days, and a triumph was voted him.

3. Verum dignitas Tribunorum Militarium non diu perfevera. vit; nam poft aliquantum nullos placu. it fieri; & quadrien. four years fo paft in the num ita in urbe fluxit, city, that there were none ut poteftates ibi majo- of the greater magiftrates, res non effent. Ře. Confuls or Military Trifumpferunt tamen Tri- bunes in it. Yet the Milbuni Militares Confu- itary Tribunes lari poteftate iterum fular power at last refumed

3. But the office of mil itary Tribunes did not continue long; for after fome time it was thought fit no more fhould be made; and

with Con

dignitatem,

He had but one triumph for these three wars fo fucceffively finished.

† Prænefte was a city of Latium, at the distance of about 29 miles to the eastward.

Our author fhould have faid five years, as appears from Livy,

fus Confules facti.

dignitatem, & triennio the government, and conperfeveraverunt. Rur- tinued for three

three years.

Then again Confuls were

made.

4. Lucio Genucio & 4. L. Genucius and Quinto Servilio Con- Quintus Servilius being fulibus, mortuus eft Confuls, Camillus died; the Camillus honor ei fe- fecond honor after Romu. cundus poft Romulum lus was paid to him. delatus eft.

5. Titus Quintius 5. T. Quintius was fent Dictator adverfus Gal- Dictator against the Gauls, los, qui in Italiam ve- who had come into Italy. nerant, miffus eft. Hi Thefe had encamped four ab urbe quarto millia- miles from the city, beyond rio trans Anienem flu- the river Anien. The novium confederant. No. bleft of the Senators, T. biliffimus de Senatori- Manlius, engaged and flew bus Titus Manlius a Gaul, that challenged provocantem Gallum any one of the Romans ad fingulare certamen to a fingle duel,and taking congreffus occidit; & from him a gold chain,and fublato torque aureo, putting it upon his own colloq; fuo impofito, neck, he forever after got in perpetuum Torqua- the firname of Torquatus ti fibi & pofteris cog- for himfelf and his pofnomen accepit. Galli terity. The Gauls were fugati funt; mox per routed, and presently Caium Sulpicium Dic- after conquered by the tatorem etiam victi. Dictator, C. Sulpicius.

Non

Not immediately, for a whole year paffed without either Confuls or Military Tribunes, occafioned by a violent conteft betwixt the Nobles and Commons, the former ftruggling for a Confular Election, the latter for that of the Military Tribunes, for which office they were qualified to be candidates, for the other not.

Non multo poft a Caio Not long after the Thufcans were conquered by Caius Marcius, feven thoufand prifoners of them were led in triumph.

Marcio Thufci victi
funt, vii. millia capti.
vorum ex his in tri-
umphum ducti.
6. Census iterum

habitus eft.

Et cum

6. The Cenfus, or fur vey of the people, was Latini, qui a Romanis again taken. And the fubacti erant, milites Latins, who had been fubpræftare nollent, ex dued by the Romans, refuRomanis tantum tiro- fing to furnish their quota nes lecti funt, factæque of foldiers, recruits were legiones decem, qui levied from among ft the Ro. modus fexaginta vel mans only, and ten legions amplius armatorum completed, which number millia efficiebat: par- made fixty thousand armed vis adhuc Romanis re- men or more; the Roman bus tanta tamen in re ftate being as yet but fmall. militari virtus erat. Such was their ability notQuæ, cum profectæ ef- withstanding in military affent adverfus Gallos, fairs, who marching against duce Lucio Furio Ca- the Gauls under L. Furius millo, quidam ex Gal- Camillus their general, one lis unum e Romanis, of the Gauls challenged qui effet optimus, pro. any one of the Romans, vocavit. Tum fe that was the best at his Marcus Valerius, Tri- weapons. Upon that M. bunus Militum, obtu- Valerius, a Tribune of the lit; & cum procef- foldiers, offered himself, fiffet armatus, corvus and marching out armed,

+ Th's is a miflake. Livy tells us the legion in this levy con fifted of 4200 foot and 500 horie,

ei

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