1Publius Lucretius and Publius Valerius Publicola, then Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius, were made consuls. 1In that year envoys came from Porsenna for the last time about restoring Tarquinius to the throne. 1When they had been told in reply that the senate would send envoys to the king, the most distinguished of the senators were at once sent: not that the answer, that the kings would not be received back, could not have been given briefly, and that for this reason chosen senators had been sent to him rather than an answer being given to his envoys at Rome; but so that all mention of the matter might be ended for ever, and that amid such great mutual kindnesses feelings on both sides might not be troubled, with him asking for what was contrary to the liberty of the Roman people, and the Romans, unless they wished to be obliging to their own ruin, refusing one to whom they wished nothing to be refused.
3The Roman people, they said, lived not under a king but in liberty. 3They had made up their minds to open their gates to enemies rather than to kings; 3it was the prayer of all that whatever end should come to liberty in that city, the same should be the end of the city. 4Therefore, if he wished Rome to be safe, they begged him to allow it to be free. 4The king, overcome by a sense of shame, said, 'Since this is fixed and resolved, I shall neither weary you by pressing the same request again and again in vain, nor shall I disappoint the Tarquinii with hope of help, which I have none to give.
5Let them look for another place of exile away from here, whether they need war or quiet, so that nothing may stand in the way of my peace with you.' 6To his words he added deeds still more friendly: he gave back what remained of the hostages, and restored the Veientine land which had been taken from the Romans by the treaty struck at the Janiculum. 7Tarquinius, every hope of return cut off, went away into exile at Tusculum, to his son-in-law Mamilius Octavius. 7So the Romans kept a faithful peace with Porsenna.