Liv. 2.62.1Eōdem annō Valerius cōnsul cum exercitū in Aequōs profectus cum hostem ad proelium ēlicere nōn posset, castra oppugnāre est adortus.In 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. Liv. 2.62.1Prohibuit foeda tempestās cum grandine ac tonitribus caelō dēiecta.A foul storm with hail and thunder, hurled down from the sky, prevented him. Liv. 2.62.2Admīrātiōnem deinde auxit signō receptuī datō adeō tranquilla serēnitās reddita, ut velut nūmine aliquō dēfēnsa castra oppugnāre iterum religiō fuerit.Wonder 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. Liv. 2.62.2Omnis īra bellī ad populātiōnem agrī vertit.All the fury of the war turned to laying waste the land. Liv. 2.62.2Alter cōnsul Aemilius in Sabīnīs bellum gessit.The other consul, Aemilius, waged war among the Sabines. Liv. 2.62.3Et ibi, quia hostis moenibus sē tenēbat, vāstātī agrī sunt.There too, because the enemy kept within his walls, the fields were laid waste.
Liv. 2.62.4Incendiīs deinde nōn vīllārum modo sed etiam vīcōrum, quibus frequenter habitābātur, Sabīnī excitī cum praedātōribus occurrissent, ancipitī proeliō dīgressī posterō diē rettulēre castra in tūtiōra loca.Then, 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. Liv. 2.62.5Id satis cōnsulī vīsum, cūr prō victō relinqueret hostem, integrō inde dēcēdēns bellō.This seemed enough reason to the consul for leaving the enemy as beaten, and he withdrew from there with the war unfinished.