He appoints as triumvirs for distributing the land, Titus Quintius, Aulus Virginius, and Publius Furius: those who wished to obtain land were ordered to give in their names.

The gratification of their aim begat disgust, as usually happens; so few gave in their names that Volscian colonists were added to fill up the number: the rest of the people preferred clamouring for land in Rome, rather than receive it elsewhere.
The AEquans sued for peace from Quintus Fabius, (he was sent thither with an army,) and they themselves broke it by a sudden incursion into the Latin territory.
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In the following year Quintus Servilius, (for he was consul with Spurius Posthumius,) being sent against the AEquans, fixed his camp in the Latin territory: inaction necessarily kept the army within the camp, involved as they were in a distemper.

The war was protracted to the third year, Quintus Fabius and Titus Quintius being consuls.

To Fabius, because he, as conqueror, had granted[105] peace to the AEquans, that province was assigned by an extraordinary commission: who, setting out with certain hope that the fame of his name would reduce the AEquans to submission, sent ambassadors to the council of the nation, and ordered them to say "that Quintus Fabius, the consul, stated that he had brought peace to Rome from the AEquans, that from Rome he now brought war to the AEquans, that same right hand being armed, which he had formerly given to them in amity; that the gods were now witnesses, and would presently be avengers of those by whose perfidy and perjury that was brought to pass.
That he, however, be matters as they might, would even now prefer that the AEquans should repent of their own accord than be subject to the vengeance of an enemy.