Servius Sulpicius and Manius Tullius were consuls the next year:  nothing worth mentioning happened.  Titus Aebutius and Gaius Vetusius succeeded.  In their consulship Fideae was besieged, Crustumeria taken, and Praeneste[23] revolted from the Latins to the Romans.  Nor was the Latin war, which had now been fomenting for several years, any longer deferred.  Aulus Postumius the dictator, and Titus Aebutius his master of the horse, setting out with a numerous army of horse and foot, met the enemy’s forces at the Lake Regillus,[24] in the territory of Tusculum, and, because it was rumoured that the Tarquins were in the army of the Latins, their rage could not be restrained, so that they immediately came to an engagement.  Accordingly, the battle was considerably more severe and fierce than others.  For the generals were present not only to direct matters by their instructions, but, exposing their own persons, they met in combat.  And there was hardly one of the principal officers of either army who came off unwounded, except the Roman dictator.  As Postumius was encouraging his men in the first line, and drawing them up in order, Tarquinius Superbus, though now advanced in years and enfeebled, urged on his horse to attack him:  and, being wounded in the side, he was carried off by a party of his men to a place of safety.  In like manner, on the other wing, Aebutius, master of the horse, had charged Octavius Mamilius; nor was his approach unobserved by the Etruscan general, who in like manner spurred his horse against him.  And such was their impetuosity as they advanced with lances couched, that Aebutius was pierced through the arm and Mamilius run through the breast.  The Latins received the latter into their second line; Aebutius, as he was unable to wield his lance with his wounded arm, retired from the battle.  The Latin general, no way discouraged by his wound, stirred up the fight:  and, because he saw that his own men were disheartened, sent for a company of Roman exiles, commanded by the son of Lucius Tarquinius.  This body, inasmuch as they fought with greater fury, owing to the loss of their country, and the seizure of their estates, for a while revived the battle.

When the Romans were now beginning to give ground in that quarter, Marcus Valerius, brother of Publicola, having observed young Tarquin boldly parading himself at the head of his exiles, fired besides with the renown of his house, that the family, which had gained glory by having expelled the kings, might also have the glory of destroying them, put spurs to his horse, and with his javelin couched made toward Tarquin.  Tarquin retreated before his infuriated foe to a battalion of his own men.  As Valerius rode rashly into the line of the exiles, one of them attacked him and ran him sideways through the body, and as the horse was in no way impeded by the wound of his rider, the Roman sank to the ground expiring, with his arms falling over his body.  Postumius the dictator, seeing