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 which the Veientes killed in one battle, three hundred Fabii, that is, the whole family of the Fabis (who had-vowed themselves to death for the Commonwealths service) except one little boy nor able to bear arms, from whom Fabius Maximus, the terror of Hannibal, and Romes buckler descended,

Upon this rode also stood antiently the town Veii, a town which held out ten Summers against the Romans, and stood in need of no less man then Camillus to take it. This town was once so great, that Rome being destroyed almost by the Gauls, the Senators held a Consultation in the Comitium, whether they should retire to Veii, and leave Rome quite, or rebuild again Romes walls, but during this Consultation, the troopes returning out of garrison, arrived by chance into the Comitium, where the Centurion entring, and not thinking the Senators had been there, cryed out to the Standard-bearer, Signifer statue Signum, hic optime manebimus; which words the Senators