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BOOK VII
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Paetelius enjoyed a double triumph, over the Gauls and the Tiburtians.

Fabius was satisfied with entering the city in ovation.

The Tiburtians derided the triumph of Paetelius; "for where," they said, "had he encountered them in the field?
that a few of their people having gone outside the gates to witness the flight and confusion of the Gauls, on seeing an attack made on themselves, and that those who came in the way were slaughtered without distinction, had retired within the city.

Did that seem to the Romans worthy of a triumph?
They should not consider it an extraordinary and wondrous feat to raise a tumult at the enemy's gates, as they should soon see greater confusion before their own walls." 12.

Accordingly in the year following, Marcus Popilius Laenas and Cneius Manlius being consuls, during the first silence of the night having set out from Tibur with an army prepared for action, they came to the city of Rome.


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