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The consul then, leading back his forces into the Faliscian territory, and leaving his baggage with a small guard at Falerii, set out with his troops, lightly accoutred, to ravage the enemy's country.
All places are destroyed with fire and sword; plunder driven from every side; and not only was the ground left a mere waste to the enemy, but their forts and small towns were set on fire; he refrained from attacking the cities into which fear had driven the Etrurians.
The consul Cneius Fulvius fought a glorious battle in Samnium, near Bovianum, attended with success by no means equivocal.
Then, having attacked Bovianum, and not long after Aufidena, he took them by storm. This year a colony was carried out to Carseoli, into the territory of the Aequicolae.
The consul Fulvius triumphed on his defeat of the Samnites. 13.
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