The lands were left desolate; the city exhausted by a constant succession of deaths.

Many and illustrious families were in mourning.

The Flamen Quirinalis, Servilius Cornelius, died; as also the augur, Caius Horatius Pulvillus; into whose place the augurs elected Caius Veturius, the more eagerly, because he had been condemned by the commons.

The consul Quintilius died, and four tribunes of the people.

The year was rendered a melancholy one by these manifold disasters; but from an enemy there was perfect quiet.