However, he directed his greater efforts against those who had sallied from the town, and, without much resistance, drove them back within the walls.

He then turned his whole force against the Samnites: there he found greater difficulty.

But the victory, though long delayed, was neither doubtful nor alloyed by losses.

The Samnites, being forced to fly into their camp, extinguished their fires at night, and marched away in silence; and renouncing all hopes of relieving Saticula, sat themselves down before Plistia, which was in alliance with the Romans, that they might, if possible, retort equal vexation on their enemy.
22.

The year coming to a conclusion, the war was thenceforward conducted by a dictator, Quintius Fabius.