As they had expected to be able to defend this act of aggression by the concurrent support of all the AEquans, when deserted by their friends they lost both their town and lands, after a war not even worth mentioning, through a siege and one slight battle.

An attempt made by Lucius Sextius, tribune of the people, to move a law by which colonists might be sent to Bolae also, in like manner as to Lavici, was defeated by the protests of his colleagues, who declared openly that they would suffer no order of the commons to be passed, unless with the approbation of the senate.

On the following year the AEquans, having recovered Bolae, and sent a colony thither, strengthened the town with additional fortifications, the military tribunes with consular power at Rome being Cneius Cornelius Cossus, Lucius Valerius Potitus, Quintus Fabius Vibulanus a second time, Marcus Postumius Regillensis.

The war against the AEquans was intrusted to the latter, a man of depraved mind, which victory manifested more effectually than war.

For having with great activity levied an army and marched it to Bolae, after breaking down the spirits of the AEquans in slight engagements, he at length forced his way into the town.