1For three years after that there was neither secure peace nor war. 1The consuls were Quintus Cloelius and Titus Larcius, then Aulus Sempronius and Marcus Minucius. 1In their consulship a temple was dedicated to Saturn and the Saturnalia established as a holiday. 2Then Aulus Postumius and Titus Verginius were made consuls. 3In some writers I find that the battle at Lake Regillus was fought only in this year: that Aulus Postumius, because his colleague's loyalty was doubtful, resigned the consulship; 3and that he was then made dictator. 4Such great errors confuse the chronology, since the magistrates are listed in a different order by different writers, that you cannot settle which consuls came after which, or what was done in each year, at so great a distance in time not only from the events but also from the authorities.
4Then Appius Claudius and Publius Servilius were made consuls. 5This year is notable for the news of Tarquinius' death. 5He died at Cumae, where he had betaken himself to the tyrant Aristodemus after the power of the Latins was broken. 5At this news the senators were elated, and the plebs elated too. 6But among the senators that joy was too unrestrained; 6the plebs, who until that day had been courted with the greatest care, began to suffer wrongs from the leading men. 7In the same year the colony of Signia, which King Tarquinius had founded, was founded a second time, its number of colonists being made up. 7At Rome twenty-one tribes were formed.
7The temple of Mercury was dedicated on the Ides of May.