Which annoyance the patricians avenged by passing a decree of the senate that consuls should be elected, magistrates detested by the commons.

After an interval of fifteen years, Lucius Lucretius Flavus and Servius Sulpicius Camerinus were appointed consuls.

In the beginning of this year, whilst the tribunes of the commons united their efforts to pass the law, because none of their college were likely to oppose them, and the consuls resisted them with no less energy, the AEquans storm Vitellia, a Roman colony in their territory.

The chief part of the colonists made their way in safety to Rome, because the town, having been taken by treachery in the night, afforded an unimpeded mode of escape by the remote side of the city.

That province fell to the lot of Lucius Lucretius the consul.
He having set out with his army, vanquished the enemy in the field; and returned victorious to Rome to a much more serious contest.