The History of Rome. Book III

The mainland of Italy proper, south of the Ape

In fact the Boii had already renewed the war in 516, and their chiefs Atis and Galatas had - without, it is true, the authority of the general diet - summoned the Transalpine Gauls to make common cause with them. The latter had numerously answered the call, and in 518 a Celtic army, such as Italy had not seen for long, encamped before Ariminum. The Romans, for the moment much too weak to attempt a battle, concluded an armistice, and to gain time allowed envoys from the Celts to proceed to Rome, who ventured in the senate to demand the cession of Ariminum - it seemed as if the times of Bre