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33. concusserat primo statim congressu hostem cum repente patefactis Fidenarum portis noua erumpit acies, inaudita ante id tempus inuisitataque. [2] ignibus armata ingens multitudo facibusque ardentibus tota conlucens, uelut fanatico instincta cursu in hostem ruit, formaque insolitae pugnae Romanos parumper exterruit. [3] tum dictator, magistro equitum equitibusque, tum ex montibus Quinctio accito, proelium ciens ipse in sinistrum cornu, quod, incendio similius quam proelio, [4] territum cesserat flammis, accurrit claraque uoce 'fumone uicti' inquit, 'uelut examen apum, loco uestro exacti inermi cedetis hosti? non ferro exstinguitis ignes? non faces has ipsas pro se quisque, si igni, non telis pugnandum est, ereptas ultro infertis? [5] [p. 4054]agite, nominis Romani ac uirtutis patrum uestraeque memores uertite incendium hoc in hostium urbem, et suis flammis delete Fidenas, quas uestris beneficiis placare non potuistis. legatorum hoc uos uestrorum colonorumque sanguis uastatique fines monent.' ad imperium dictatoris mota cuncta acies. [6] faces partim emissae excipiuntur, partim ui eripiuntur: utraque acies armatur igni. [7] magister equitum et ipse nouat pugnam equestrem; frenos ut detrahant equis imperat, et ipse princeps calcaribus subditis euectus effreno equo in medios ignes infertur, et alii concitati equi libero cursu ferunt equitem in hostem. [8] puluis elatus mixtusque fumo lucem ex oculis uirorum equorumque aufert. ea quae militem terruerat species nihil terruit equos; ruinae igitur similem stragem eques quacumque peruaserat dedit. [9] clamor deinde accidit nouus; qui cum utramque mirabundam in se aciem uertisset, dictator exclamat Quinctium legatum et suos ab tergo hostem adortos; ipse redintegrato clamore infert acrius signa. [10] cum duae acies, duo diuersa proelia circumuentos Etruscos et a fronte et ab tergo urgerent, neque in castra retro neque in montes, unde se nouus hostis obiecerat, iter fugae esset, et equitem passim liberi frenis distulissent equi, Ueientium maxima pars Tiberim effusi petunt, Fidenatium qui supersunt ad urbem Fidenas tendunt. [11] infert pauidos fuga in mediam caedem; obtruncantur in ripis; alios in aquam compulsos gurgites ferunt; etiam peritos nandi lassitudo et uolnera et pauor degrauant; pauci ex multis tranant. [12] [p. 4055]alterum agmen fertur per castra in urbem. eadem et Romanos sequentes impetus rapit, Quinctium maxime et cum eo degressos modo de montibus, recentissimum ad laborem militem, quia ultimo proelio aduenerat.

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