1When this disaster was suffered, Gaius Horatius and Titus Menenius were already consuls. 1Menenius was at once sent against the Tuscans, who were elated by their victory. 2Then too the battle went badly, and the enemy occupied the Janiculum; 2and the city would have been besieged, with the price of corn pressing on it on top of the war — for the Etruscans had crossed the Tiber — had not the consul Horatius been recalled from the Volsci. 2And that war came so close to the very walls that the first battle, with even fortune, was fought by the temple of Hope, the second at the Colline gate. 3There, although the Romans had the better of it by only a slight margin, that contest nonetheless made them better soldiers for future battles, by restoring their old spirit.
3Aulus Verginius and Spurius Servilius become consuls. 4After the defeat suffered in the last battle the Veientes refrained from pitched battle; 4there were raids, and from the Janiculum, as if from a citadel, they made attacks everywhere into Roman territory; 5nowhere were the cattle safe, nor the country folk. 5Then they were caught by the same trick by which they had caught the Fabii. 5Following cattle that had been deliberately driven out here and there as bait, they plunged headlong into an ambush. 6The more numerous they were, the greater the slaughter. 6From this disaster fierce anger was the cause and beginning of a greater disaster. 6For crossing the Tiber by night they set about attacking the camp of the consul Servilius.
6Driven back from there with great slaughter, they retreated with difficulty to the Janiculum. 7At once the consul himself also crosses the Tiber and fortifies a camp beneath the Janiculum. 7At daybreak the next day, emboldened somewhat by the success of the previous day's battle, but more because the shortage of grain was driving him to plans, however headlong, provided they were quicker, he rashly led his line up the face of the Janiculum to the enemy camp, and was driven back from there more shamefully than he had driven them back the day before, and was saved, he and his army, by the intervention of his colleague. 9Caught between two lines, the Etruscans, turning their backs now to one, now to the other, were cut down to the last man.
9Thus the war with Veii was crushed by a fortunate rashness.