The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . teady gains. By slow degrees she becameagain the mistress of the Latin league; and, in 396, afterfourteen long wars, she finally destroyed Veii, sl dangerousrival, only a few hours walk distant, in Etruria. Here shebegan the merciless policy which she was to show toward 1 The story of Cincinnatus (§ 409) is given in Davis Readings, II, No. report : a Roman triumph (see especially Munros Source Book, 38-40),3 This important treaty was the work of Spurius Cassius (§ 362). 333 334 ROME BECOMES MISTRESS OF ITALY [§375 many rival cap
The ancient world, from the earliest times to 800 AD . teady gains. By slow degrees she becameagain the mistress of the Latin league; and, in 396, afterfourteen long wars, she finally destroyed Veii, sl dangerousrival, only a few hours walk distant, in Etruria. Here shebegan the merciless policy which she was to show toward 1 The story of Cincinnatus (§ 409) is given in Davis Readings, II, No. report : a Roman triumph (see especially Munros Source Book, 38-40),3 This important treaty was the work of Spurius Cassius (§ 362). 333 334 ROME BECOMES MISTRESS OF ITALY [§375 many rival capitals in time to come, by exterminating thepopulation and laying waste the site of the city. 375. The Gauls. — Six years later the city was again for atime in danger of utter destruction. In 390, a horde of Gauls,who had overrun Etruria, defeated the Roman army in thebattle of the Allia, twelve miles from the walls, and cut it offfrom the city. Fortunately, the barbarians squandered threedays in pillage, and so gave time to save Rome. The sacred.
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