The successes in war induced the Samnites to seek their friendship.

A courteous answer was returned to their ambassadors by the senate: they were received into an alliance by a treaty.

The Roman commons had not the same success at home as in war.
For though the burden of interest money had been relieved by fixing the rate at one to the hundred, the poor were overwhelmed by the principal alone, and submitted to confinement.

On this account, the commons took little heed either of the two consuls being patricians, or the management of the elections, by reason of their private distresses.
Both consulships therefore remained with the patricians.

The consuls appointed were Caius Sulpicius Paeticus a fourth time, Marcus Valerius Publicola a second time.