1In the same year the consul Valerius set out with an army against the Aequi, and when he could not lure the enemy into battle, he set about attacking their camp. 1A foul storm with hail and thunder, hurled down from the sky, prevented him. 2Wonder was then increased when, on the signal for retreat being given, so tranquil a calm was restored that it seemed a religious scruple to attack again a camp defended as if by some divine power. 2All the fury of the war turned to laying waste the land. 2The other consul, Aemilius, waged war among the Sabines. 3There too, because the enemy kept within his walls, the fields were laid waste.
4Then, by the burning not only of farmhouses but of villages too, which were thickly inhabited, the Sabines were roused, and when they had confronted the raiders and parted after an indecisive battle, the next day they moved their camp back to safer ground. 5This seemed enough reason to the consul for leaving the enemy as beaten, and he withdrew from there with the war unfinished.