And now the contest is carried on not by the companies of the nearest posts, but by the legions pouring out from both sides.

The soldiers exulting in the victory of the tribune, and also at such favour and attention from the gods, are commanded by Camillus to advance against the enemy: and he, pointing to the tribune distinguished by the spoils, "Soldiers," said he, "imitate this man; and around their fallen leader strew heaps of Gauls." Gods and men assisted at that fight; and the struggle was carried on against the Gauls with a fury by no means equivocal in its result, so thoroughly were both armies impressed with the respective success of the two soldiers, between whom the single combat had taken place.

Among the first party, whose encounter had called out the others, there was a desperate encounter: the rest of the soldiery, before they came within throw of a weapon, turned their backs.

At first they were dispersed through the Volscians and the Falernian territory; thence they made for Apulia and the upper sea.

The consul, calling an assembly, after heaping praises on the tribune, bestows on him ten oxen and a golden crown.