[3,41] Τετάρτῳ δὲ μάλιστα μετὰ τόνδε τὸν πόλεμον ἐνιαυτῷ Μάρκιος ὁ τῶν Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς τήν τε πολιτικὴν δύναμιν ἄγων καὶ τὴν συμμαχικὴν μεταπεμψάμενος ὅσην ἐδύνατο πλείστην ἐστράτευσεν ἐπὶ Οὐιεντανοὺς καὶ πολλὴν τῆς χώρας αὐτῶν ἐδῄωσεν. ἐκεῖνοι δ´ ἤρξαντο ἐνιαυτῷ πρότερον εἰς τὴν Ῥωμαίων γῆν ἐμβαλόντες καὶ πολλὰς μὲν ἁρπαγὰς χρημάτων, πολὺν δὲ ἀνθρώπων ὄλεθρον ποιήσαντες· στρατιᾶς δὲ πολλῆς παρὰ τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν ἐξελθούσης καὶ πέραν τοῦ Τεβέριος ποταμοῦ πρὸς τῇ Φιδηναίων πόλει χάρακα θεμένης ἀναλαβὼν τὴν δύναμιν ἦγεν ὡς εἶχε τάχους καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τῶν ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν ἐξόδων αὐτοὺς ἀπέκλεισεν ἱπποκρατῶν, ἔπειτ´ εἰς παράταξιν προελθεῖν ἀναγκάσας ἐνίκησε καὶ τοῦ χάρακος αὐτῶν ἐκράτησε. χωρήσαντος δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τούτου κατὰ γνώμην τοῦ πολέμου τὴν ἐπινίκιον πομπὴν καὶ τὸν εἰωθότα θρίαμβον τοῖς θεοῖς κατήγαγεν εἰς τὴν πόλιν ἀφικόμενος. δευτέρῳ δ´ ὕστερον ἔτει πάλιν τῶν Οὐιεντανῶν λυσάντων ἃς ἐποιήσαντο πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀνοχὰς καὶ τὰς ἁλὰς ἀξιούντων ἀπολαβεῖν, ὧν ἐπὶ Ῥωμύλου βασιλέως καθ´ ὁμολογίας ἀπέστησαν, ἑτέραν τίθεται πρὸς αὐτοὺς μάχην περὶ ταῖς ἁλαῖς μείζονα τῆς προτέρας, ἣν εὐπετῶς ἐνίκησε, καὶ τὰς ἁλὰς ἐξ ἐκείνου κατεῖχεν ἀναμφιλόγως. τὰ δὲ ἀριστεῖα καὶ ἐκ ταύτης ἔλαβε τῆς μάχης ὁ τῶν ἱππέων ἡγεμὼν Ταρκύνιος, καὶ αὐτὸν ὁ Μάρκιος ἄνδρα πάντων κράτιστον ἡγησάμενος τά τε ἄλλα σεμνύνων διετέλει καὶ εἰς τὸν τῶν πατρικίων τε καὶ βουλευτῶν ἀριθμὸν κατέγραψεν. ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸ τῶν Οὐολούσκων ἔθνος τῷ Μαρκίῳ πόλεμος λῃστηρίων κἀκεῖθεν ἐξιόντων ἐπὶ τοὺς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀγρούς· καὶ στρατεύσας ἐπ´ αὐτοὺς μεγάλῃ χειρὶ πολλὴν περιεβάλετο λείαν πόλει τε αὐτῶν Οὐελίτραις προσκαθεζόμενος ἀπετάφρευε καὶ περιεχαράκου καὶ τειχομαχίαν συνίστατο τῆς ὑπαίθρου κρατῶν. ἐξελθόντων δὲ σὺν ἱκετηρίαις τῶν πρεσβυτάτων καὶ τάς τε βλάβας διαλύσειν ὑποσχομένων, ὡς ἂν ὁ βασιλεὺς δικαιώσῃ, καὶ τοὺς ἐνόχους ταῖς αἰτίαις ἐπὶ δίκην παρέξειν ὁμολογούντων, ἀνοχὰς πρὸς αὐτοὺς ποιησάμενος καὶ τὰ δίκαια παρ´ ἑκόντων λαβὼν εἰρήνην καὶ φιλίαν συντίθεται.

[3,41] About the fourth year after this war Marcius, the Roman king, leading his own army of citizens and sending for as many auxiliaries as he could obtain from his allies, marched against the Veientes and laid waste a large part of their country. These had been the aggressors the year before by making an incursion into the Roman territory, where they seized much property and slew many of the inhabitants. And when the Veientes came out against him with a large army and encamped beyond the river Tiber, near Fidenae, Marcius set out with his army as rapidly as possible; and being superior in cavalry, he (p171) first cut them off from the roads leading into the country, and then, forcing them to come to a pitched battle, defeated them and captured their camp. Having succeeded in this war also according to his desire, he returned to Rome and conducted in honour of the gods the procession in celebration of his victory and the customary triumph. The second year after this, the Veientes having again broken the truce they had made with Marcius and demanding to get back the salt-works which they had surrendered by treaty in the reign of Romulus, he fought a second battle with them, one more important than the first, near the salt-works; and having easily won it, he continued from that time forth in undisputed possession of the salt- works. The prize for valour in this battle also was won by Tarquinius, the commander of the horse; and Marcius, looking upon him as the bravest man in the whole army, kept honouring him in various ways, among other things making him both a patrician and a senator. Marcius also engaged in a war with the Volscians, since bands of robbers from this nation too were setting out to plunder the fields of the Romans. And marching against them with a large army, he captured much booty; then, laying siege to one of their cities called Velitrae, he surrounded it with a ditch and palisades and, being master of the open country, prepared to assault the walls. But when the elders came out with the emblems of suppliants and not only promised to make good the damage they had done, in such manner as the king should determine, but also agreed to deliver up the guilty (p173) to be punished, he made a truce with them, and, after accepting the satisfaction they freely offered, he concluded a treaty of peace and friendship.