Ab urbe condita

The people crowded round them and succeeded in inducing them to stay, and they were granted the privilege of going about the City for three days every year in their long dresses and masks with singing and mirth; a custom which is still observed. Those members of the guild who played on solemn occasions in the temple of Jupiter had the right restored to them of holding their banquets there. These incidents occurred while the public attention was fixed on two most serious wars.

The[*](Further Successes in Samnium.) consuls drew lots for their respective commands; the Samnites fell to Junius, the new theatre of war in Etruria to Aemilius.