The consuls elected were Titus Manlius Torquatus a third time, and Publius Decius Mus.

It is agreed on that, in this year, Alexander, king of Epirus, made a descent on Italy with a fleet.

Which war, if the first commencement had been sufficiently successful, would unquestionably have extended to the Romans.

The same was the era of the exploits of Alexander the Great, whom, being son to the other's sister, in another region of the world, having shown himself invincible in war, fortune cut short in his youth by disease.

But the Romans, although the revolt of their allies and of the Latin nation was now no matter of doubt, yet as if they felt solicitude regarding the Samnites, not for themselves, summoned ten of the leading men of the Latins to Rome, to whom they wished to issue such orders as they might wish.