held them; and then, the standard-bearers themselves were dragged to the consul, and the armed soldiers transferred from the one line to the other; and wherever resistance was any where made, the business was performed, not so much with swords, as with their shields, with the bosses of which, and thrusts of their elbows, they bore down the foe.  The prisoners were more numerous than the slain, and through the whole line the Umbrians called on each other, with one voice, to lay down their arms.  Thus a surrender was made in the midst of action, by the first promoters of the war; and on the next and following days, the other states of the Umbrians also surrendered.  The Ocriculans were admitted to a treaty of friendship on giving security.

42.  Fabius, successful in a war allotted to another, led back his army into his own province.  And as, in the preceding year, the people had, in consideration of his services so successfully performed, re-elected him to the consulship, so now the senate, from the same motive, notwithstanding a warm opposition made by Appius, prolonged his command for the year following, in which Appius Claudius and Lucius Volumnius were consuls.  In some annals I find, that Appius, still holding the office of censor, declared himself a candidate for the consulship, and that his election was stopped by a protest of Lucius Furius, plebeian tribune, until he resigned the censorship.  After his election to the consulship, the new war with the Sallentine enemies being decreed to his colleague, he remained at Rome, with design to increase his interest by city intrigues, since the means of procuring honour in war were placed in the hands of others.  Volumnius had no reason to be dissatisfied with his province:  he fought many battles with good success, and took several cities by assault.  He was liberal in his donations of the spoil; and this munificence, engaging in itself, he enhanced by his courteous demeanour, by which conduct he inspired his soldiers with ardour to meet both toil and danger.  Quintus Fabius, proconsul, fought a pitched battle with the armies of the Samnites, near the city of Allifae.  The victory was complete.  The enemy were driven from the field, and pursued to their camp; nor would they have kept possession of that, had not the day been almost spent.  It was invested, however, before night, and guarded until day, lest any should slip away.  Next morning, while it was scarcely clear day, they proposed to capitulate, and it was agreed, that such as were natives of Samnium should be dismissed with single garments.  All these were sent under the yoke.  No precaution was taken in favour of the allies of the Samnites:  they were sold by auction, to the number of seven thousand.  Those who declared themselves subjects of the Hernicians, were kept by themselves under a guard.  All these Fabius sent to Rome to the senate; and, after being examined, whether it was in consequence of a public order, or as volunteers, that they had carried arms