Both wars fell by lot to Plautius.

He, marching first to Privernum, immediately came to an engagement.

The enemy were defeated after a slight resistance: the town was taken, and given back to the Privernians, a strong garrison being placed in it: two thirds of their land were taken from them.

The victorious army was marched thence to Satricum against the Antians; there a desperate battle was fought with great slaughter on both sides; and when a storm separated the combatants, hope inclining to neither side, the Romans, nowise disheartened by this so indecisive an engagement, prepare for battle against the following day.

The Volscians, reckoning up what men they had lost in battle, had by no means the same spirits to repeat the risk.