The soldiers, urged on by the fear of this disgrace, attacked the enemy; thus the victory was equalized in every quarter.  News then came from Quinctius that he, being now victorious, was about to attack the enemy’s camp; that he was unwilling to break into it, before he learned that they were beaten in the left wing also.  If he had routed the enemy, let him now join him, that all the army together might take possession of the booty.  Agrippa, being victorious, with mutual congratulations advanced toward his victorious colleague and the enemy’s camp.  There, as there were but few to defend it, and these were routed in a moment they broke into the fortifications without a struggle, and marched back the army, in possession of abundant spoil, having recovered also their own effects, which had been lost by the devastation of the lands.  I have not heard that they either themselves demanded a triumph, or that one was offered to them by the senate; nor is any cause assigned for the honour being either overlooked or not hoped for.  As far as I can conjecture at so great a distance of time, since a triumph had been refused to the consuls Horatius and Valerius, who, in addition to the victory over the AEquans and Volscians, had gained the glory of having also finished the Sabine war, the consuls were ashamed to demand a triumph for one half of the services done by them, lest, even if they should have obtained it, regard might appear to have been paid to persons rather than to merit.

A disgraceful decision of the people regarding the boundaries of their allies marred the honourable victory obtained over their enemies.  The people of Aricia [72] and of Ardea, who had frequently contended in arms concerning a disputed piece of land, wearied out by many losses on either side, appointed the Roman people as arbitrators.  When they arrived to support their claims, an assembly of the people being granted them by the magistrates, the matter was debated with great warmth.  The witnesses being now produced, when it was time for the tribes to be called, and for the people to give their votes, Publius Scaptius, a plebeian advanced in years, rose up and said, “Consuls, if it is permitted me to speak on the public interest, I will not suffer the people to be led into a mistake in this matter.”  When the consuls said that he, as unworthy of attention, ought not to be heard, and, on his shouting that the public interest was being betrayed, ordered him to be put aside, he appealed to the tribunes.  The tribunes, as they are nearly always directed by the multitude rather than direct it, granted Scaptius leave to say what he pleased in deference to the people, who were anxious to hear him.  He then began:  That he was now in his eighty-third year, and that he had served in that district which was now in dispute, not even then a young man, as he was already serving in his twentieth campaign, when operations were going on at Corioli.  He therefore brought forward a fact forgotten by length