1The consuls were Marcus Valerius and Publius Postumius. 1In that year there was a successful campaign against the Sabines; 2the consuls celebrated a triumph. 2Then the Sabines began preparing war on a larger scale. 2To meet them, and so that no sudden danger might at the same time arise from Tusculum, from where war, though not open, was nevertheless suspected, Publius Valerius for the fourth time and Titus Lucretius for the second were made consuls. 3A quarrel that arose among the Sabines between the advocates of war and of peace transferred a good deal of strength from them to the Romans. 3For Attius Clausus, who was afterwards called Appius Claudius at Rome, being himself an advocate of peace, when he was hard pressed by those stirring up war and was no match for their faction, fled over from Inregillum to Rome, attended by a great band of clients.
4They were given citizenship and land across the Anio: it was called the old Claudian tribe, when new tribesmen who came from that territory had later been added. 5Appius, chosen among the senators, not very long afterwards rose to the standing of the leading men. 6The consuls set out with an army in hostile array into Sabine territory, and so crushed the enemy's strength, first by laying waste their land and then in battle, that for a long time no renewal of war could be feared from that quarter. 6They returned to Rome in triumph. 7Publius Valerius, by universal consent foremost in the arts of war and of peace, died the following year, in the consulship of Agrippa Menenius and Publius Postumius, with immense glory but with private means so slender that money for his funeral was lacking: it was provided from the public treasury.
8The matrons mourned him as they had mourned Brutus. 8In the same year two Latin colonies, Pometia and Cora, went over to the Aurunci. 8War was begun with the Aurunci, and when a huge army, which had boldly confronted the consuls as they entered their territory, had been routed, the whole Auruncan war was driven into Pometia. 9Nor was there any more restraint from slaughter after the battle than in it: those killed were a good many more than those captured, and the captives they butchered everywhere; 9not even from the hostages, three hundred of whom had been received, did the anger of war hold back. 9This year too there was a triumph at Rome.