1While this was going on among the Volsci, the dictator routs and puts to flight the Sabines, where by far the greatest part of the war had been, and strips them of their camp. 2By sending in his cavalry he had thrown into confusion the enemy's centre, which, while the wings spread out too widely, they had not strengthened by placing ranks in depth with enough skill; 2his infantry fell upon them in their disorder. 2In the same charge the camp was taken and the war finished. 3After the battle at Lake Regillus there was no more famous battle in those years. 3The dictator rides into the city in triumph.
3Beyond the usual honours, a place in the Circus was given to him and his descendants for watching the games, and a curule chair was set in that place. 3With the Volsci defeated, the territory of Velitrae was taken from them; 4colonists were sent to Velitrae from the city; 4and a colony was founded. 4Some time later there was fighting with the Aequi, against the consul's wishes indeed, because they had to approach the enemy over unfavourable ground; 5but the soldiers, complaining that the business was being dragged out so that the dictator should leave office before they themselves returned to the city, and his promises, like the consul's before, should fall to nothing, drove him to lead his column, at random and rashly, up the mountains facing them.
6This ill-advised move was turned to good by the cowardice of the enemy, who, before they came within a weapon's throw, stunned by the Romans' daring, abandoned the camp they had held in a very strongly fortified position and leapt down into the valleys behind them; 6there was plenty of booty there, and a bloodless victory. 7Though the war had thus been successfully waged on three fronts, neither the senators nor the plebs had lost their anxiety about the outcome of affairs at home; 7with such influence, and such cunning too, had the moneylenders made their preparations, to thwart not only the plebs but even the dictator himself. 8For Valerius, after the return of the consul Vetusius, made it the first of all his business in the senate to act for the victorious people, and put the question what they wished to be done about the bondsmen.
9When the motion had been rejected, he said, 'I do not please you as a promoter of harmony; 9you will wish, by heaven, before long, that the Roman plebs had patrons like me. 9As far as I am concerned, I shall neither disappoint my fellow citizens any longer nor be dictator to no purpose myself. 10Strife at home and war abroad made the state need this office; 10peace has been won abroad, at home it is being blocked; 10I shall take part in the sedition as a private citizen rather than as dictator.' 10So, leaving the senate house, he resigned his dictatorship. 11It was plain to the plebs that he had left office out of indignation at their treatment: and so, as though he had kept his word in full, since it had not been his fault that it was not fulfilled, as he went home they escorted him with goodwill and praise.