Every thing there being managed with consummate prudence and skill, was attended, as is usual, with success.

He not only routed the enemy in battle, but he stripped them also of their camp, and obtained a great quantity of spoil, the principal part of which was handed over to the quaestor; not much was given to the soldiers.

From thence the army was marched to Veii, and additional forts close to each other were erected; and by a proclamation being issued, that no one should fight without orders, the soldiers were taken off from those skirmishes, which frequently took place at random between the wall and rampart, [so as to apply] to the work.

Of all the works, far the greatest and more laborious was a mine which they commenced to carry into the enemies' citadel.

And that the work might not be interrupted, and that the continued labour under ground might not exhaust the same individuals, he divided the number of pioneers into six companies; six hours were allotted for the work in rotation; nor by night or day did they give up, until they made a passage into the citadel.
[Footnote 161: _Expectatione, &c._ With confident expectations on the part of his countrymen, rather than simple hope.] 20.