Liv. 2.15.1P. Lucrētius et P. Valerius Pūblicola, Sp. Larcius inde et T. Herminius cōnsulēs factī.Publius Lucretius and Publius Valerius Publicola, then Spurius Larcius and Titus Herminius, were made consuls. Liv. 2.15.1Eō annō postrēmum lēgātī ā Porsinnā dē redūcendō in regnum Tarquiniō vēnērunt.In that year envoys came from Porsenna for the last time about restoring Tarquinius to the throne. Liv. 2.15.1Quibus cum respōnsum esset missūrum ad rēgem senātum lēgātōs, missī cōnfestim honōrātissimus quisque ē patribus: nōn quīn breviter reddī respōnsum potuerit, nōn recipī rēgēs, ideō potius dēlēctōs patrum ad eum missōs, quam lēgātīs eius Rōmae darētur respōnsum, sed ut in perpetuum mentiō eius reī fīnīrētur, neu in tantīs mūtuīs beneficiīs in vicem animī sollicitārentur, cum ille peteret, quod contrā lībertātem populī Rōmānī esset, Rōmānī, nisi in perniciem suam facilēs esse vellent, negārent, cui nihil negātum vellent.When 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.
Liv. 2.15.3Nōn in regnō populum Rōmānum, sed in lībertāte esse.The Roman people, they said, lived not under a king but in liberty. Liv. 2.15.3Ita indūxisse in animum, hostibus potius quam rēgibus portās patefacere;They had made up their minds to open their gates to enemies rather than to kings; Liv. 2.15.3ea esse vōta omnium, ut, quī lībertātī erit in illā urbe fīnis, īdem urbī sit.it was the prayer of all that whatever end should come to liberty in that city, the same should be the end of the city. Liv. 2.15.4Proinde, sī salvam esse vellet Rōmam, ut patiātur līberam esse, ōrāre.Therefore, if he wished Rome to be safe, they begged him to allow it to be free. Liv. 2.15.4Rēx verēcundiā victus "quandō id certum atque obstinātum est" inquit, "neque ego obtundam saepius eadem nēquīquam agendō, nec Tarquiniōs spē auxiliī, quod nūllum in mē est, frūstrābor.The 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.
Liv. 2.15.5Alium hinc, seu bellō opus est seu quiēte, exiliō quaerant locum, nē quid meam vōbīscum pācem distineat."Let 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.' Liv. 2.15.6Dictīs facta amīciōra adiēcit: obsidum quod reliquum erat reddidit, agrum Veientem foedere ad Iāniculum ictō adēmptum restituit.To 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. Liv. 2.15.7Tarquinius spē omnī reditūs incīsā exulātum ad generum Mamilium Octāvium Tusculum abiit.Tarquinius, every hope of return cut off, went away into exile at Tusculum, to his son-in-law Mamilius Octavius. Liv. 2.15.7Rōmānīs pāx fīda ita cum Porsinnā fuit.So the Romans kept a faithful peace with Porsenna.