o
they then called auxiliaries raised for sudden emergencies).

[Footnote 107: According to Stroth, this is the first instance we have
of a decree of the senate arming the consul with almost dictatorial
power.]

[Footnote 108: _Pro-consul_:--the first mention of a pro-consul in
Livy.]

5. During those days many movements and many attempts were made on
either side, because the enemy, having the advantage in numbers,
attempted to weaken the Roman strength by dividing it into many parts,
as not being likely to suffice for all points of attack. At the same
time the camp was besieged, at the same time a part of the army was sent
to devastate the Roman territory, and to attempt the city itself, if
fortune should favour. Lucius Valerius was left to guard the city: the
consul Postumius was sent to repel the attacks on the frontiers. There
was no abatement in any part either in vigilance or activity; watches in
the city, out-posts before the gates, and guards stationed along the
walls: and a justitium was observed for several days (a thing which was
necessary in such general confusion). In the mean time the consul
Furius, after he had at first passively endured the siege in his camp,
burst forth from the Decuman gate on the enemy when off their guard; and
though he might have pursued them, he stopped through fear, lest an
attack should be made on the camp from the other side. The
lieutenant-general Furius (he was the consul's brother) was carried away
too far by his ardour; nor did he, from his eagerness to pursue, observe
his own party returning, nor the attack of the enemy on his rear: thus
being shut out, after repeatedly making many unavailing efforts to force
his way to the camp, he fell, fighting bravely. And the consul, turning
about to renew the fight, on hearing the account that his brother was
surrounded, rushing into the thick of the fight rather rashly than with
sufficient caution, received a wound, and was with difficulty rescued by
those around him. This both damped the courage of his own men, and
rendered the enemy more daring; who, being encouraged by the death of
the lieutenant-general, and by the consul's wound, could not afterwards
be withstood by any force, so as to prevent the Romans from being driven
within their camp and again submitting to a siege, as being a match for
them neither in hopes nor in strength; and every thing would have been
endangered, had not T. Quintius come to their relief with foreig