Ibi tribuni militum non loco castris ante capto, non praemunito vallo, quo receptus esset, non deorum saltem, si non hominum, memores, nec auspicato nec litato instruunt aciem diductam in cornua, ne circumveniri multitudine hostium possent; {5} nec tamen aequari frontes poterant, cum extenuando infirmam et vix cohaerentem mediam aciem haberent. Paulum erat ab dextera editi loci, quem subsidiariis repleri placuit; eaque res ut initium pavoris ac fugae, sic una salus fugientibus fuit. Nam Brennus, regulus {10} Gallorum, in paucitate hostium artem maxime timens, ratus ad id captum superiorem locum, ut, ubi Galli cum acie legionum recta fronte concurrissent, subsidia in aversos transversosque impetum darent, ad subsidiarios signa convertit, si eos loco depulisset, {15} haud dubius facilem in aequo campi tantum superanti multitudine victoriam fore; adeo non fortuna modo sed ratio etiam cum barbaris stabat. In altera acie nihil simile Romanis, non apud duces, non apud milites erat. Pavor fugaque occupaverat animos et {20} tanta omnium oblivio, ut multo maior pars Veios, in hostium urbem, cum Tiberis arceret, quam recto itinere Romam ad coniuges ac liberos fugerent. LIVY, V. 38. [Linenotes: 4. +nec litato+ = _without obtaining favourable omens_ (= καλλιερεῖν). 4-5. +diductam in cornua+ = _extended (drawn out) towards the wings_. 6-7. +cum ... haberent+ = _though they made_, concessive subjunctive. 8. +Paulum ... editi loci+ = lit. _a little piece of rising ground_. 10. +Brennus+ = lit. _King of the army_. Cf. the Saxon _Heretoga_. 13. +recta fronte+ = _front to front_. --Whibley. 14. +in aversos transversosque+ = _on their rear and flank_. 16-17. +superanti multitudine+ = i. _(the victory) would be (easy) to him superior_ (+superanti+) _in point of numbers_, or ii. abl, of cause--_as he was so much superior in numbers_. 21-22. +Veios, in hostium urbem.+ An exaggeration as Veii was in ruins. 22. +cum T. arceret+ = _though the Tiber stood in their way_.] +The Invasion of the Gauls.+ ‘The most advanced tribe of the Gauls were the Senones who had settled on the Adriatic to the E. of Central Etruria. While the Romans reduced S. Etruria to a state of subjection, these Gauls suddenly crossed the Apennines, threatened Clusium, and then marched on Rome. +Thus for the first time the Gallic race was brought to the knowledge of the civilised world.+ The two armies met on July 18 at the small R. Allia, only 15 miles from Rome.’ --Ihne. D23 THE INVASION OF THE GAULS, 390 B.C. (2) A. _The Battle of the Allia_ (cont.)