The Triumph of the Victorious Camillus

Camillus knew a direct assault on the city was doomed to failure, so he set his mind on devising some other way to gain access. It did not take long for him to notice the viites extensive sewer system and how easy it would be to breach the city from underneath. He set his army digging in shifts around the clock, making a tunnel from the roman camp to one of the drainage pipes that ran under the city. What looked like a never ending siege would be brought to completion within his six months term of office. The men were slaughtered and the women and children sold into slavery. Camillus had made a fathful promise that one tenth of the spoils of war