Veturius was sent against the Volscians to carry on an offensive war.

Tricipitinus being appointed to protect the territory of the allies from devastation, proceeds no further than into the country of the Hernicians.

Veturius routs and puts to flight the enemy in the first engagement.

A party of plunderers which had marched over the Praenestine mountains, and from thence descended into the plains, escaped the notice of Lucretius, whilst he lay encamped amongst the Hernicians.

These laid waste all the country around Praeneste and Gabii: from the Gabinian territory they turn their course towards the heights of Tusculum; great alarm was excited in the city of Rome also, more from the suddenness of the affair, than that there was not sufficient strength to repel violence.