The prisoners being brought into the senate, when the senate decreed that the Tusculans should be punished with war, and they intrusted the management of that war to Camillus, he requests one assistant for himself in that business, and being allowed to select which ever of his colleagues he pleased, contrary to the expectation of every one, he solicited Lucius Furius.

By which moderation of feeling he both alleviated the disgrace of his colleague, and acquired great glory to himself.

There was no war, however, with the Tusculans.

By firm adherence to peace they warded off the Roman violence, which they could not have done by arms.

When the Romans entered their territories, no removals were made from the places adjoining to the road, the cultivation of the lands was not interrupted: the gates of the city lying open, they came forth in crowds clad in their gowns to meet the generals; provision for the army was brought with alacrity from the city and the lands.