1Immediately the Sabines too gave the Romans a fright; 1for it was more truly an alarm than a war. 1News was brought to the city at night that a Sabine army, plundering as it went, had reached the river Anio; 1there farmhouses were being plundered and burned far and wide. 2Aulus Postumius, who had been dictator in the Latin war, was at once sent there with the whole of the cavalry; 2the consul Servilius followed with a picked band of infantry. 3The cavalry surrounded most of them as they straggled about, and the Sabine legion did not withstand the column of infantry as it came up; 3worn out both by the march and by their night's plundering, a great part of them gorged with food and wine in the farmhouses, they scarcely had strength enough to flee.
4The Sabine war having been heard of and finished in a single night, on the following day, when there were now high hopes that peace had been won on every side, Auruncan envoys come before the senate, declaring war unless the Volscian territory was evacuated. 5Together with the envoys an army of the Aurunci had set out from home; 5the report that it had already been seen not far from Aricia threw the Romans into such turmoil that neither could the senators be consulted in due form, nor, taking up arms themselves, could they give a peaceful answer to men bringing arms against them. 5They march on Aricia in battle array, and not far from there they engaged the Aurunci, and the war was finished in a single battle.