Three thousand of the enemy were killed round the walls, and the spoil was given to the troops.

In some annals, the principal share of the honour of taking these cities is attributed to Maximus.

They say that Murgantia was taken by Decius; Romulea and Ferentinum by Fabius.

Some ascribe this honour to the new consuls: others not to both, but to one of these, Lucius Volumnius: that to him the province of Samnium had fallen.
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While things went on thus in Samnium, whoever it was that had the command and auspices, powerful combination, composed of many states, was formed in Etruria against the Romans, the chief promoter of which was Gellius Egnatius, a Samnite.