At length, when they were repelled from the shore, among other things necessary for use, water also failing, they abandoned Italy.

To what state or what nation that fleet belonged, there is nothing certain.

I would be most inclined to think that they belonged to the tyrants of Sicily; for the farther Greece, being at that time wearied by intestine war, was now in dread of the power of the Macedonians.
27.

The armies being disbanded, whilst there was both peace abroad, and tranquillity at home by reason of the concord of the different orders, lest matters might be too happy, a pestilence having attacked the state, compelled the senate to order the decemvirs to inspect the Sibylline books, and by their suggestion a lectisternium took place.

The same year a colony was led to Satricum by the Antians, and the city, which the Latins had demolished, was rebuilt.