He himself, being commanded by the senate to take charge of the maritime war, joined his camp to that of the praetor.

There because matters seemed to be delayed by the dastardly conduct of the Greeks, who did not venture into the field, with the approbation of the senate, he nominated Titus Manlius Torquatus dictator.

The dictator, after appointing Aulus Cornelius Cossus his master of the horse, held the consular elections, and with the greatest applause of the people he returned Marcus Valerius Corvus (for that was his surname from thenceforth) as consul, though absent, the rival of his own glory, then three and twenty years of age.

As colleague to Corvus, Marcus Popillius Laenas, a plebeian, was assigned to be consul for the fourth time.

Nothing memorable occurred between Camillus and the Greeks; neither the one were warriors by land, nor the Romans by sea.