Thus a great part yielded to an enemy they had not seen.

Those whom the panic had driven within the rampart (they amounted to thirty thousand) were all slain; the camp was plundered.
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Matters being thus conducted, the consul, having summoned an assembly, pronounces a panegyric on Decius, not only that which had been commenced on a previous occasion, but as now completed by his recent deserts; and besides other military gifts, he presents him with a golden crown and one hundred oxen, and with one white one of distinguished beauty, richly decorated with gilded horns.

The soldiers who had been in the guard with him, were presented with a double allowance of corn for ever; for the present, with an ox and two vests each.

Immediately after the consuls' donation, the legions place on the head of Decius a crown of grass, indicative of their deliverance from a blockade, expressing their approbation of the present with a shout.