The army, when raised and equipped with arms, he divided into three parts.

One part he opposed to Etruria in the Veientian territory; another he ordered to pitch their camp before the city.

A military tribune, Aulus Manlius, commanded the latter; those who were sent against the Etrurians, Lucius AEmilius commanded.

The third part he led in person against the Volscians; and not far from Lanuvium, (the place is called ad Maecium,) he set about storming their camp.

Into these, who set out to the war from motives of contempt, because they thought that all the Roman youth were cut off by the Gauls, the fact of having heard that Camillus was appointed to the command struck such terror, that they fenced themselves with a rampart, and the rampart itself with trees piled up together, lest the enemy might by any means reach to the works.