Liv. 2.63.1Inter haec bella manente discordiā domī cōnsulēs T. Numīcius Prīscus A. Verginius factī.Amid these wars, while discord continued at home, Titus Numicius Priscus and Aulus Verginius were made consuls. Liv. 2.63.2Nōn ultrā vidēbātur lātūra plēbēs dīlātiōnem agrāriae lēgis, ultimaque vīs parābātur, cum Volscōs adesse fūmō ex incendiīs vīllārum fugāque agrestium cognitum est.The plebs seemed unlikely to tolerate any further postponement of the agrarian law, and the utmost violence was being prepared, when it was learned from the smoke of burning farmhouses and the flight of the country folk that the Volsci were at hand. Liv. 2.63.2Ea rēs mātūram iam sēditiōnem ac prope ērumpentem repressit.This checked the sedition, which was already ripe and almost bursting out. Liv. 2.63.3Cōnsulēs, coāctī extemplō ab senātū, ad bellum ēductā ex urbe iuventūte tranquilliōrem cēteram plēbem fēcērunt.The consuls, compelled at once by the senate, led the young men out of the city to war and so made the rest of the plebs calmer. Liv. 2.63.4Et hostēs quidem, nihil aliud quam perfūsīs vānō timōre Rōmānīs, citātō agmine abeunt;And the enemy, having done nothing more than flood the Romans with groundless fear, depart in a hurried column; Liv. 2.63.5Numīcius Antium adversus Volscōs, Verginius contrā Aequōs profectus.Numicius set out for Antium against the Volsci, Verginius against the Aequi.
Liv. 2.63.5Ibi ex īnsidiīs prope magnā acceptā clāde virtūs mīlitum rem prōlāpsam neglegentiā cōnsulis restituit.There, when a great defeat had nearly been suffered from an ambush, the courage of the soldiers restored a situation that had collapsed through the consul's carelessness. Liv. 2.63.6Melius in Volscīs imperātum est;The command was better handled among the Volsci; Liv. 2.63.6fūsī prīmō proeliō hostēs fugāque in urbem Antium, ut tum rēs erant, opulentissimam āctī.the enemy were routed in the first battle and driven in flight into the city of Antium, which, as things then stood, was very wealthy. Liv. 2.63.6Quam cōnsul oppugnāre nōn ausus Caenōnem, aliud oppidum nēquāquam tam opulentum, ab Antiātibus cēpit.Not daring to attack it, the consul took from the people of Antium Caeno, another town by no means so wealthy. Liv. 2.63.7Dum Aequī Volscīque Rōmānōs exercitūs tenent, Sabīnī ūsque ad portās urbis populantēs incessere.While the Aequi and Volsci kept the Roman armies occupied, the Sabines advanced, plundering, right up to the gates of the city. Liv. 2.63.7Deinde ipsī paucīs post diēbus ab duōbus exercitibus, utrōque per īram cōnsule ingressō in fīnīs, plūs clādium, quam intulerant, accēpērunt.Then a few days later they themselves suffered more harm from two armies than they had inflicted, as both consuls in their anger invaded their territory.