hat day, being hid under a heap of
slaughtered Gauls: on the following, it was discovered and brought to
the camp, amidst abundance of tears shed by the soldiers. Fabius,
discarding all concern about any other business, solemnized the
obsequies of his colleague in the most honourable manner, passing on
him the high encomiums which he had justly merited.

30. During the same period, matters were managed successfully by
Cneius Fulvius, propraetor, he having, besides the immense losses
occasioned to the enemy by the devastation of their lands, fought a
battle with extraordinary success, in which there were above three
thousand of the Perusians and Clusians slain, and twenty military
standards taken. The Samnites, in their flight, passing through the
Pelignian territory, were attacked on all sides by the Pelignians;
and, out of five thousand, one thousand were killed. The glory of the
day on which they fought at Sentinum was great, even when truly
estimated; but some have gone beyond credibility by their
exaggerations, who assert in their writings, that there were in the
army of the enemy forty thousand three hundred and thirty foot, six
thousand horse, and one thousand chariots, that is, including the
Etrurians and Umbrians, who [they affirm] were present in the
engagement: and, to magnify likewise the number of Roman forces, they
add to the consuls another general, Lucius Volumnius, proconsul, and
his army to the legions of the consul. In the greater number of
annals, that victory is ascribed entirely to the two consuls.
Volumnius was employed in the mean time in Samnium; he drove the army
of the Samnites to Mount Tifernus, and, not deterred by the difficulty
of the ground, routed and dispersed them. Quintus Fabius, leaving
Decius's army in Etruria, and leading off his own legions to the city,
triumphed over the Gauls, Etrurians, and Samnites: the soldiers
attended him in his triumph. The victory of Quintus Fabius was not
more highly celebrated, in their coarse military verses, than the
illustrious death of Publius Decius; and the memory of the father was
recalled, whose fame had been equalled by the praiseworthy conduct of
the son, in respect of the issue which resulted both to himself and to
the public. Out of the spoil, donations were made to the soldiers of
eighty-two _asses_ [Footnote: _5s. 31d._] to each, with
cloaks and vests; rewards for service, in that age, by no means
contemptible.

31. Notwithstanding these