1While this was going on at Antium, the Aequi meanwhile sent ahead the pick of their young men and captured the Tusculan citadel unexpectedly by night; 2with the rest of their army they encamp not far from the walls of Tusculum, so as to divide the enemy's forces. 2This news, swiftly carried to Rome and from Rome to the camp at Antium, moves the Romans no less than if the capture of the Capitol were being reported; 2so recent was the service of the Tusculans, and the very likeness of the danger seemed to demand in return the help they had given. 3Fabius, dropping everything, hastily conveys the booty from the camp to Antium; 3leaving a modest garrison there, he hurries his army at a rapid march to Tusculum.
3The soldiers were allowed to carry nothing but their arms and whatever cooked food was to hand; 4the consul Cornelius brings up supplies from Rome. 4For several months there was fighting at Tusculum. 4With part of his army the consul was attacking the camp of the Aequi; part he had given to the Tusculans to recover their citadel. 4It could never be approached by force; 4in the end hunger brought the enemy down from it. 5When it had come to the extremity of hunger, they were all sent under the yoke by the Tusculans, unarmed and stripped. 5As they were retreating homewards in ignominious flight, the Roman consul overtook them on Algidus and killed them all to a man.
5Victorious, he led his army back to Columen — that is the name of the place — and pitches camp. 6The other consul too, now that the enemy had been driven back and the walls of Rome had ceased to be in danger, set out from Rome himself. 7Thus the consuls, entering the enemy's territory on two fronts, vie with each other in ravaging the Volsci on one side and the Aequi on the other. 7I find in most authorities that in the same year the people of Antium revolted; 7that Lucius Cornelius the consul waged that war and captured the town. 7I would not dare to affirm it as certain, because there is no mention of the matter in the older writers.