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chap, lvh.] HISTORY OP PERUSIA. 469
some traditions to have won a victory over the Etruscans,
under the walls of this city—a battle which is more gene-
rally believed to have been fought at Sutrium. However that
may be, as Livy remarks, the Romans won the day, and
compelled Perusia, Cortona, and Arretium to sue for a truce,
which was granted for thirty years.4 This was in 444
(b.c. 310). In the following year, however, Perusia joined
the rest of the Etruscans in opposing the power of Rome;
and after the fatal rout at the Lake of Vadimon, it still
held out till Fabius marched against it, defeated the
Etruscan army under its walls, and would have taken the
city by storm, had it not surrendered into his hands.5
We next find Perusia in conjunction with Clusium, in
the year 459, opposing the propraetor Fulvius ; but the
confederates were routed by him with great slaughter. Yet
this defeat did not break the spirit of the Perusians; for
no sooner had the consul Fabius withdrawn his army,
than they excited the rest of the Etruscans to revolt; but
Fabius, quickly re-entering Etruria, overcame them anew,
slew 4500 of the citizens, and captured 1740, who were ran-
somed at 310 pieces of brass each man.6 Not yet even did
they relinquish their struggle for independence, but in the
following year, after sustaining two other defeats, one near
Volsinii, the other near Rusellse, they were compelled, in
conjunction with Volsinii and Arretium, to sue for peace;
when a truce for forty years was granted them, on the
payment of a heavy fine.7
At what precise period Perusia fell under the Roman
yoke does not appear, but it must have been soon after the
events last recorded, as ere the close of the fifth century
of Rome, the whole of Etruria had lost its independence.
Perusia joined the other cities of Etruria in furnishing
4 Liv. IX. 37. Diodorus (XX. p. s Liv. IX. 40. • Liv. X. 30, 31.
773) also places this victory at Perusia. 7 l;v. X. 37.
some traditions to have won a victory over the Etruscans,
under the walls of this city—a battle which is more gene-
rally believed to have been fought at Sutrium. However that
may be, as Livy remarks, the Romans won the day, and
compelled Perusia, Cortona, and Arretium to sue for a truce,
which was granted for thirty years.4 This was in 444
(b.c. 310). In the following year, however, Perusia joined
the rest of the Etruscans in opposing the power of Rome;
and after the fatal rout at the Lake of Vadimon, it still
held out till Fabius marched against it, defeated the
Etruscan army under its walls, and would have taken the
city by storm, had it not surrendered into his hands.5
We next find Perusia in conjunction with Clusium, in
the year 459, opposing the propraetor Fulvius ; but the
confederates were routed by him with great slaughter. Yet
this defeat did not break the spirit of the Perusians; for
no sooner had the consul Fabius withdrawn his army,
than they excited the rest of the Etruscans to revolt; but
Fabius, quickly re-entering Etruria, overcame them anew,
slew 4500 of the citizens, and captured 1740, who were ran-
somed at 310 pieces of brass each man.6 Not yet even did
they relinquish their struggle for independence, but in the
following year, after sustaining two other defeats, one near
Volsinii, the other near Rusellse, they were compelled, in
conjunction with Volsinii and Arretium, to sue for peace;
when a truce for forty years was granted them, on the
payment of a heavy fine.7
At what precise period Perusia fell under the Roman
yoke does not appear, but it must have been soon after the
events last recorded, as ere the close of the fifth century
of Rome, the whole of Etruria had lost its independence.
Perusia joined the other cities of Etruria in furnishing
4 Liv. IX. 37. Diodorus (XX. p. s Liv. IX. 40. • Liv. X. 30, 31.
773) also places this victory at Perusia. 7 l;v. X. 37.