Thus the history of Porsenna's war reflects the image of that with Veii in the year (di Roma) 277, which after the misfortune on the Cremera brought Rome to the brink of destruction. In this again the Veientines made themselves masters of the Janiculum; and in a more intelligible manner, after a victory in the field: here again the city was saved by a Horatius (come dal Coclite nella guerra con Porsenna); the consul who arrived [4445]with his army at the critical moment by forced marches from the land of the Volscians: the victors, encamping on the Janiculum, sent out foraging parties across the river and laid waste the country; until some skirmishes, which again took place by the temple of Hope and at the Colline gate, checked their depredations: yet a severe famine arose within the city.
      (26. Gen. 1829.)
     
      Niebuhr, ib. sez. intit. The Patrician Houses and the Curies, p.268. Each house (ciascuno dei ?(?? gentes nei quali era anticamente distribuito il popolo ateniese) bore a peculiar name resembling a patronymic in form; as the Codrids, the Eumolpids, the Butads: which produces an appearance, but a fallacious one, of a family affinity (perchč quelle gentes, come ap. i Romani, erano una mera divisione politica; ciascuna gens o casa era composta di pił famiglie senz'alcun riguardo ad affinitą scambievole). These names may have been transferred from the most distinguished among the associated families to the rest: it is more probable that they were adopted from the name of a hero, who was their eponymus.