Nero, therefore, when he was now drawing near, halted under cover of the mountains, in order that he might not enter the camp before night.

Having entered when all was still, they were severally conducted into their tents by the men of their own description, where they were hospitably entertained with the utmost joy on the part of all.

The next day a council was held, at which Lucius Porcius Licinus, the praetor, was present.

He had his camp joined to that of the consuls, and before their arrival, by leading his army along the heights, sometimes occupying narrow defiles that he might intercept his passage, at other times harassing his troops while marching by attacking their flank or rear, he had baffled the enemy by all the arts of war.

This man was, on the present occasion, one of the council.