Chapter 12 THE SACK OF ROME.

B.C. 390.

Rome was left to the enemy, except for the small garrison in the Capitol and for eighty of the senators, men too old to flee, who devoted themselves to the gods to save the rest, and, arraying themselves in their robes-some as former consuls, some as priests, some as generals-sat down with their ivory staves in their hands, in their ch