After this Politorium was taken a second time by force of arms, because the ancient Latins had taken possession of it when vacated.

This was the cause of the Romans demolishing that city, that it might not ever after serve as a receptacle to the enemy.

At last, the whole war with the Latins being concentrated in Medullia, they fought there with various fortune, sometimes the one and sometimes the other gaining the victory; for the town was both well fortified by works, and strengthened by a strong garrison, and the Latins, having pitched their camp in the open fields, had several times fought the Romans in close engagement.

At last Ancus, making an effort with all his forces, obtained a complete victory over them in a pitched battle, and having got a considerable booty, returned thence to Rome; many thousands of the Latins being then also admitted into the city, to whom, in order that the Aventine might be joined to the Palatium, a settlement was assigned near the temple of Murcia.

The Janiculum was likewise added, not for want of room, but lest at any time it should become a lodgment for the enemy.