Appius, being chosen into the senate, was soon after advanced, to the highest dignity of that order.

The consuls having entered the territories of the Sabines with a hostile army, after they had, both by laying waste their country, and afterwards by defeating them in battle, so weakened the power of the enemy, that they had no reason to dread their taking up arms again for a long time, returned to Rome in triumph.
The following year, Agrippa Menenius and P.Posthumius being consuls, P.
Valerius, allowed by universal consent to be the ablest man in Rome, in the arts both of peace and war, died in the height of glory, but so poor, that means to defray the expenses of his funeral were wanting: he was buried at the public charge.

The matrons mourned for him as they had done for Brutus.

The same year two Latin colonies, Pometia and Cora, revolted to the Auruncians.

War was commenced against the Auruncians, and after defeating a numerous army of them who boldly met the consuls entering their frontiers, the whole Auruncian war was confined to Pometia.