31d._] to each, with cloaks and vests; rewards for service, in that age, by no means contemptible.
31.

Notwithstanding these successes, peace was not yet established, either among the Samnites or Etrurians: for the latter, at the instigation of the Perusians, resumed their arms, after his army had been withdrawn by the consul; and the Samnites made predatory incursions on the territories of Vescia and Formiae; and also on the other side, on those of Aesernia, and the parts adjacent to the river Vulturnus.

Against these was sent the praetor Appius Claudius, with the army formerly commanded by Decius.

In Etruria, Fabius, on the revival of hostilities, slew four thousand five hundred of the Perusians, and took prisoners one thousand seven hundred and forty, who were ransomed at the rate of three hundred and ten _asses_ [Footnote: L1.] each.

All the rest of the spoil was bestowed on the soldiers.