These having promulgated a code of laws contained in ten tables, obtain a continuation of their authority for another year, during which they add two more to the former ten tables.
Refusing to resign their office, they retain it a third year.

Their conduct at first equitable and just; afterwards arbitrary and tyrannical.

The commons, in consequence of the base attempt of Appius Claudius, one of them, to debauch the daughter of Virginius, seize on the Aventine mount, and oblige them to resign.

Appius and Oppius, two of the most obnoxious, are thrown into prison, where they put an end to their own lives; the rest are driven into exile.
War with the Sabines, Volscians, and AEquans .-- Unfair decision of the Roman people, who being chosen arbitrators between the people of Ardea and Aricia concerning some disputed lands, adjudge them to themselves._ 1.

After the taking of Antium, Titus AEmilius and Quintus Fabius are elected consuls.