The Wars down to the Last with Veii

Summary

The campaigns during this period begin to be in many instances so important both from what was achieved in them and from the consequences they led to, that a circumstantial relation of them could no longer be censured as a tedious recital of petty occurrences proceeding from a fond predilection for the subject: but almost all the details in our accounts are still of a very suspicious character. Thus we must content ourselves with saying that in 306 M. Horatius gained a glorious victory over the Sabines: an extremely memorable event, since the Sabine wars, which for more than twenty years had been continually breaking out afresh, cease from this time forward, till after the lapse of a century and a half, when the powerless state was madly roused to take up arms, and sank in a few days into final ruin. During the whole of this period the Sabines are never named in history, though the cities on their borders, at one time Tibur, at another Falerii, are waging war against Rome: in the second and third Samnite wars the Roman troops pass through their territory without any obstruction; nor could an army have been sent into Apulia, had not their friendship been completely secured.