The business in the city being settled, and the rights of the commons being firmly established, the consuls departed to their respective provinces.

Valerius prudently deferred all warlike operations against the armies of the AEquans and the Volscians, which had now formed a junction at Algidum.

But if he had immediately committed the result to fortune, I know not but that, such were the feelings both of the Romans and of their enemies since the unfavourable auspices of the decemvirs, the contest would have stood them in a heavy loss.

Having pitched his camp at the distance of a mile from the enemy, he kept his men quiet.
The enemy filled the space lying between the two camps with their army in order of battle, and not a single Roman made them any answer when they challenged them to battle.

At length, wearied from standing and from waiting in vain for a contest, the AEquans and Volscians, considering that the victory was in a manner conceded to them, go off, some to the Hernicians, some to the Latins, to commit depredations.
There was left in the camp rather a garrison for its defence than sufficient force for a contest.