body on each carriage, where the limbs had been
fastened by the cords. All turned away their eyes from so shocking a
spectacle. That was the first and last instance of a punishment among
the Romans regardless of the laws of humanity. In other cases we may
boast that no nation whatever adopted milder forms of punishment.

[Footnote 45: _Praecones ab extremo_. At the farther part of the Roman
camp, where it joined that of the Albans.]

[Footnote 46: As well as by the orders issued by Tullus.]

29. During these occurrences the cavalry had been despatched onward to
Alba to remove the multitude to Rome. The legions were next led thither
to demolish the city. When they entered the gates, there was not indeed
that tumult nor panic, such as usually takes place with captured cities
when the gates being burst open, or the walls levelled by the ram, or
the citadel taken by assault, the shouts of the enemy and rush of armed
men through the city throws every thing into confusion by fire and
sword: but gloomy silence and speechless sorrow so absorbed the minds of
all, that, through fear, forgetting what they should leave behind, what
they should take with them, all concert failing them, and frequently
making inquiries of each other, they now stood at their thresholds, now
wandering about they strayed through their houses, doomed to see them
for that the last time. But as soon as the shouts of the horsemen
commanding them to depart now urged them on, the crashing of the
dwellings which were being demolished, was now heard in the remotest
parts of the city, and the dust, rising in distant places, had filled
every quarter as with a cloud spread over them; hastily snatching up
whatever each of them could, whilst they went forth leaving behind them
their guardian deity and household gods, and the homes in which each had
been born and brought up, a continued train of emigrants soon filled the
ways, and the sight of others through mutual commiseration renewed their
tears, and piteous cries too were heard, of the women more especially,
when they passed by their revered temples now beset with armed men, and
left their gods as it were in captivity. After the Albans had evacuated
the town, the Roman soldiery level all the public and private edifices
indiscriminately to the ground, and one short hour consigned to
demolition and ruin the work of four hundred years, during which Alba
had stood. The temples of the gods, however, for such had been