Ab urbe condita

So the treaty was renewed, and orders were issued for the “juniors” [*](See above, note 13.) amongst the Latins to muster under arms , in accordance with the treaty, on a given day, at the Grove of Ferentina.

In compliance with the order contingents assembled from all the thirty towns, and with a view to depriving them of their own general or a separate command, or distinctive standards, he formed one Latin and one Roman century into a maniple, thereby making one unit out of the two, whilst he doubled the strength of the maniples, and placed a centurion over each half.

However tyrannical the king was in his domestic administration he was by no means a despicable general; in military skill he would have rivalled any of his predecessors had not the degeneration of his character in other directions prevented him from attaining distinction here also.