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42.5
also that it was not their leaders who made the first suggestions of concord, but what happened was that as the two
42.6
armies advanced towards each other prepared for action the soldiers exchanged mutual greetings, and as they drew nearer grasped each other's hands and embraced one another, and the consuls, seeing how averse the soldiers were from fighting, yielded to circumstances and made proposals to the senate for reconciliation and concord.
42.7
Thus the ancient authorities agree in nothing but the simple fact that there was a mutiny and that it was suppressed.
42.8
The report of this disturbance and the seriousness of the war which had been commenced with the Samnites made many nationalities averse from an alliance with Rome. The Latins had long been faithless to their treaty, and in addition to that the Privernates made a sudden incursion and devastated the neighbouring Roman colonies of Norba and Setia.
