1The consuls were Servius Sulpicius and Manius Tullius; 1nothing worth remembering was done; 2then came Titus Aebutius and Gaius Vetusius. 2In their consulship Fidenae was besieged and Crustumeria taken; 2Praeneste went over from the Latins to the Romans. 2Nor was the Latin war, which had now been smouldering for several years, put off any longer. 3Aulus Postumius as dictator and Titus Aebutius as master of the horse set out with great forces of infantry and cavalry and met the enemy's column at Lake Regillus in the territory of Tusculum; and because it was heard that the Tarquinii were in the army of the Latins, their anger could not be held back from joining battle at once.
5Accordingly the battle too was a good deal fiercer and more savage than the others. 5For the generals were not present merely to direct the action by their counsel, but, fighting in person with their own bodies, they joined in the struggle, and hardly any of the chief men on either side left the field unwounded except the Roman dictator. 6Against Postumius, as he was encouraging and marshalling his men in the front line, Tarquinius Superbus, although he was now burdened by age and failing strength, spurred his horse in fury; struck in the side, he was carried to safety by a rush of his own men. 7On the other wing too Aebutius, the master of the horse, had charged at Octavius Mamilius, and his approach did not escape the Tusculan leader; 7he too spurs his horse against him.
7And so great was the force of their levelled spears as they came on that Aebutius' arm was pierced through and Mamilius was struck in the chest. 8Mamilius, at least, the Latins took back into the second line; 9Aebutius, since he could not hold a weapon with his wounded arm, withdrew from the fight. 10The Latin leader, not at all deterred by his wound, keeps the battle going, and because he saw that his men were shaken, summons the cohort of Roman exiles which the son of Lucius Tarquinius commanded. 10This cohort, fighting with all the greater anger because their property had been snatched from them and their country taken away, restored the battle for a little while.