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The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08

BOOK VI
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The night succeeding the battle, they betake themselves to Antium in a march resembling a flight; and though the Roman army followed them almost in their steps, fear however possessed more swiftness than anger.

Wherefore the enemy entered the walls before the Roman could annoy or impede their rear.

After that several days were spent in laying waste the country, as the Romans were neither supplied with military engines to attack walls, nor the others to hazard the chance of a battle.
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At this time a dissension arose between the Antians and the Latins; when the Antians, overcome by misfortunes and reduced by a war, in which they had both been born and had grown old, began to think of a surrender; whilst their recent revolt after a long peace, their spirits being still fresh, rendered the Latins more determined to persevere in the war.

There was an end to the contest, when it became evident to both parties that neither would stand in the way of the other so as to prevent them from following out their own views.


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