Both armies felt the fall of this one man, and the Roman began in consequence to give way, when the consul Marcus Fabius leaped over the body as it lay, and holding up his buckler, said, "Is this what you swore, soldiers, that you would return to the camp in flight?
are you thus more afraid of your most dastardly enemies, than of Jupiter and Mars, by whom you have sworn?
But I who have not sworn will either return victorious, or will fall fighting here beside thee, Q.Fabius." Then Kaeso Fabius, the consul of the preceding year, says to the consul, "Brother, is it by these words you think you will prevail on them to fight?
the gods by whom they have sworn will prevail on them.

Let us also, as men of noble birth, as is worthy of the Fabian name, enkindle the courage of the soldiers by fighting rather than by exhorting." Thus the two Fabii rush forward to the front with presented spears, and brought on with them the whole line.
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The battle being restored on one side, Cn.

Manlius, the consul, with no less ardour, encouraged the fight on the other wing.

Where an almost similar result took place; for as the soldiers undauntedly followed Q.
Fabius on the one wing, so did they follow Manlius on this, as he was driving the enemy now nearly routed, and when he, having received a severe wound, retired from the battle, they fell back, supposing that he was slain, and would have given way, had not the other consul, galloping at full speed to that quarter with some troops of horse, supported their drooping energies, crying out that his colleague was still alive, that he himself was now come victorious, having routed the other wing.
Manlius also shows himself to restore the battle.