When the skirmish was begun, and the sun risen, and a
strong wind set in from the mountains, he gave the signal of
onset; and, heaping in an immense quantity of fiery matter, filled
all their rampart with it, so that the flame being fed by the
close timber and wooden palisades, went on and spread into all
quarters. The Latins, having nothing ready to keep it off or
extinguish it, when the camp was now almost full of fire, were
driven back within a very small compass, and at last forced by
necessity to come into their enemy's hands, who stood before the
works ready armed and prepared to receive them; of these very few
escaped, while those that stayed in the camp were all a prey to
the fire, until the Romans, to gain the pillage, extinguished it.
These things performed, Camillus, leaving his son Lucius in the
camp to guard the prisoners and secure the booty, passed into the
enemy's country, where, having taken the city of the Aequians and
reduced the Volscians to obedience, he then immediately led his
army to Sutrium, not having heard what had befallen the Sutrians,
but making haste to assist them, as if they were still in danger
and besieged by the Tuscans. They, however, had already
surrendered their city to their enemies, and destitute of all
things, with nothing left but their clothes, and bewailing their
misfortune.
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