tesque castris incidere. In eo pavore castra capiuntur; qui Volscorum effugere potuerunt, Antium petunt. Antium et Romanus exercitus ductus: paucos circumsessum dies deditur, nulla oppugnantium nova vi, sed quod jam inde ab infelici pugna castrisque amissis ceciderant animi.1 1 With this capture of Antium-the first favourable turn of the war against the Volsci and Aequi-Livy concludes the second book of his history. This conquest was not lasting: Antium revolted, and joined the Volscians again; and sixty years afterwards, in Livy, iv. 59, we find the Romans at war with the Antiates. It was not till 338 B. C. (Livy, viii. 14) that this then great seaport fell finally into the hands of the Romans, and had a colony settled in it. |