Maenius suddenly making an attack, defeated the Aricinians, and Lanuvians, and Veliternians, at the river Astura, the Volscians of Antium forming a junction with them.

The Tiburtian, far the strongest body, Camillus engages at Pedum, encountering much greater difficulty, though with a result equally successful.

A sudden sally of the townsmen during the battle chiefly occasioned confusion: Camillus, turning on these with a part of his army, not only drove them within their walls, but on the very same day, after he had discomfited themselves and their auxiliaries, he took the town by scalade.

It was then resolved to lead round with greater energy and spirit his victorious army from the storming of a single city to the entire conquest of Latium.

Nor did they stop until they reduced all Latium, either by storming, or by becoming masters of the cities one after the other by capitulation.