His name and relation to them induced the people of Tarquinii to take part with him; it seemed an honour that their countrymen should reign at Rome.

Therefore the two armies of these two states followed Tarquin in order to recover his kingdom, and to take vengeance upon the Romans.

When they entered the Roman territories, the consuls marched to meet them.

Valerius led up the foot in a square battalion, and Brutus marched before with his horse to reconnoitre (the enemy).

Their cavalry likewise came up first; Aruns, Tarquin's son, commanded it; the king himself followed with the legions.
Aruns, when he knew at a distance by the lictors that it was a consul, and on coming nigher discovered for certain that it was Brutus by his face, all inflamed with rage, he cried out, "There is the villain who has banished us from our native country! see how he rides in state adorned with the ensigns of our dignity! now assist me, gods, the avengers of kings." He put spurs to his horse and drove furiously against the consul.