1The next consuls are Quintus Minucius and Marcus Horatius Pulvillus. 1At the beginning of their year, although there was peace abroad, the same tribunes and the same law were causing discord at home; 2and matters would have gone further — so inflamed were their passions — had it not been reported, as if by design, that the garrison at Corbio had been lost in a night attack by the Aequi. 3The consuls summon the senate: they are ordered to enrol an emergency army and lead it to Algidus. 3Then the struggle over the law was laid aside and a new dispute arose about the levy; 4and the consuls' authority was being overcome by the tribunes' protection, when another alarm is added: a Sabine army had come down into Roman territory to plunder, and was advancing from there on the city.
5This fear struck them so hard that the tribunes allowed soldiers to be enrolled, though not without a bargain: that, since they themselves had been thwarted for five years and their number was too small a protection for the plebs, ten tribunes of the plebs should be elected from then on. 6Necessity wrung this from the senators; 6they made only this exception, that they should not see the same tribunes again afterwards. 6The tribunes' elections were held at once, so that this too, like everything else, should not come to nothing after the war. 7In the thirty-sixth year after the first ones, ten tribunes of the plebs were elected, two from each class, and provision was made that they should be elected in this way thereafter.
8Then, when the levy had been held, Minucius set out against the Sabines but did not find the enemy. 8Horatius, when the Aequi had already killed the garrison at Corbio and had taken Ortona as well, fights on Algidus, kills a great many men, and routs the enemy not only from Algidus but from Corbio and Ortona. 8He also razed Corbio because it had betrayed the garrison.