The Veientians, accustomed to be discomfited by the Roman soldiers, were routed and put to flight.

The Tarquinienses, who were a new enemy, not only stood their ground, but even on their side obliged the Romans to give way.
7.

After the issue of this battle, so great a terror seized Tarquin and the Etrurians, that both the armies, the Veientian and Tarquinian, giving up the matter as impracticable, departed to their respective homes.

They annex strange incidents to this battle,--that in the silence of the next night a loud voice was emitted from the Arsian wood; that it was believed to be the voice of Silvanus: these words were spoken, "that more of the Etrurians by one[70] had fallen in the battle; that the Roman was victorious in the war." Certainly the Romans departed thence as victors, the Etrurians as vanquished.

For as soon as it was light, and not one of the enemy was now to be seen, P.Valerius the consul collected the spoils, and returned thence in triumph to Rome.