Flight and disorder ensued, to a still greater degree at a distance among those who were ignorant what was the cause of the alarm.

This circumstance was regarded by most persons as an omen of great terror.
Having then received two legions from Sempronius, the consul of the former year, and two from Caius Atilius, the praetor, the army began to be led into Etruria, through the passes of the Apennines..