Both the consuls were sent with an army, and find the enemy in their usual post in Algidum.

A battle was fought there; upwards of seven thousand of the enemy were slain; the rest were routed; immense booty was obtained.

This the consuls sold on account of the low state of the treasury; the proceeding was the cause of dissatisfaction to the army, and it also afforded to the tribunes materials for bringing a charge against the consuls before the commons.

Accordingly, as soon as they went out of office, in the consulship of Spurius Tarpeius and Aulus Aterius, a day was appointed for Romilius by Caius Claudius Cicero, tribune of the people; for Veturius, by Lucius Alienus, plebeian aedile.

They were both condemned, to the great mortification of the patricians; Romilius to pay ten thousand _asses_; Veturius, fifteen thousand.