When reproved, they displayed immediately the energy of brave men; and a sense of shame stimulated them as much as praises excited the others.

The shout being raised anew, and making a united effort, they drive the enemy back; nor could the Roman power be any longer resisted.

The Sabines, driven in every direction through the country, leave behind them their camp as plunder for the enemy.

There the Roman recovers the effects not of the allies, as at Algidum, but his own property, which had been lost by the devastations of their lands.

For this double victory, obtained in two battles, in two different places, the senate through jealousy decreed merely supplications in the name of the consuls for one day only.