5.] [Footnote 43: The Tiber and the Anio.] [Footnote 44: _Erigit_--"he makes it halt," from the French _faire alte_, or formerly _haut_, because soldiers then stand upright and hold their spears erect.] 28.

Then the Alban army, that had been spectators of the fight, was marched down into the plains.

Mettus congratulates Tullus on his defeat of the enemy; Tullus on his part addresses Mettus with great civility.
He orders the Albans to unite their camp with the Romans, which he prayed might prove beneficial to both; and prepares a sacrifice of purification for the next day.

As soon as it was light, all things being in readiness, according to custom, he commands both armies to be summoned to an assembly.

The heralds,[45] beginning at the outside, summoned the Albans first.