Immediately after his triumph, he led his army into winter quarters in the territory of Vescia; because that country was harassed by the Samnites.

Meanwhile, in Etruria, the consul Carvilius having set about laying siege to Troilium, suffered four hundred and seventy of the richest inhabitants to depart; they had paid a large sum of money for permission to leave the place: the town, with the remaining multitude, he took by storm.

He afterwards reduced, by force, five forts strongly situated, wherein were slain two thousand four hundred of the enemy, and not quite two thousand made prisoners.

To the Faliscians, who sued for peace, he granted a truce for a year, on condition of their furnishing a hundred thousand _asses_ in weight,[Footnote: L322 18s.

4d.] and that year's pay for his army.