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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 43 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUS , the name of a See also:

Roman See also:family of the plebeian Decian gens. (1) PUBLIUS See also:DECIUS MOs won his first laurels in the Samnite See also:War, when in 343 B.C., while serving as See also:tribune of the soldiers, he rescued the Roman See also:main See also:army from an apparently hopeless position (See also:Livy vii. 34). In 340, as See also:consul with T. See also:Manlius Torquatus as colleague, he commanded in the Latin War. The decisive See also:battle was fought near Mt See also:Vesuvius. The consuls, in consequence of a See also:dream, had agreed that the See also:general-whose troops first gave way should devote himself to destruction, and so ensure victory. The See also:left wing under Decius became disordered, whereupon, repeating after the See also:chief pontiff the See also:solemn See also:formula of self-devotion he dashed into the ranks of the Latins, and met his See also:death (Livy viii. 9). (2) His son, also called PUBLIUS, consul for the See also:fourth See also:time in 295, followed the example of his See also:father at the battle of See also:Sentinum, when the left wing which he commanded was shaken by the Gauls (Livy x. 28). The See also:story of the See also:elder Decius is regarded by See also:Mommsen as an unhistorical " doublette " of what is related on better authority of the son.

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