The line of infantry, and the consul himself, and the main body of the army make for the camp, and having taken it with considerable slaughter, they get possession of a great quantity of booty.

The fame of this battle was carried not only to the city, but to the other army also among the Sabines.

In the city it was celebrated only with public rejoicing; in the camp it fired the courage of the soldiers to emulate such glory.

Horatius, by training them in excursions, and making trial of them in slight skirmishes, had accustomed them to trust in themselves rather than to remember the ignominy incurred under the command of the decemvirs, and these little encounters had now gone so far as to insure to them the consummation of all their hopes.

The Sabines, elated at their success on the preceding year, ceased not to provoke and urge them (to fight,) constantly asking them why they wasted time, sallying forth in small numbers and returning like marauders, and why they parcelled out the grand effort of a single war on a number of insignificant skirmishes?
why did they not engage them in the field, and consign the result to fortune to be determined at once?
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