History of Rome

​These consuls were succeeded by Marcus Fabius Dorsuo and Servius...

​...Sulpicius Camerinus. Then a war with the Aurunci began from a sudden raid; and from the fear lest this might be the act not of a single people, but a plan of the entire Latin name, Lucius Furius was appointed dictator, as if against a Latium already in arms, and he named Gnaeus Manlius Capitolinus master of the horse.

​And when, as was accustomed to be done in great tumults, a cessation of public business was proclaimed and a levy held without exemptions, the legions were led against the Aurunci as quickly as possible. There, the spirits of robbers rather than of enemies were found; and so the war was finished in the first battle.

​Nevertheless, because they had initiated the war of their own accord and offered themselves to the contest without hesitation, the dictator, thinking that the help of the gods should also be employed, vowed a temple to Juno Moneta in the midst of the battle; and having become bound by his vow, when he returned to Rome as victor, he resigned his dictatorship.

​The senate ordered two commissioners to be appointed to build this temple in a manner suitable to the grandeur of the Roman people; its site was designated on the citadel, where the area of the house of Marcus Manlius Capitolinus had been.

​The consuls, using the dictator’s army for the Volscian war, took Sora from the enemy, attacking them when they were off their guard. In the year after it had been vowed, the temple of Moneta was dedicated, during the consulship of Gaius Marcius Rutilus for the third time and Titus Manlius Torquatus for the second.

​A prodigy immediately followed the dedication, similar to the ancient prodigy of the Alban Mount; for it rained stones, and night seemed to fall during the day; and when the books had been consulted and the state was filled with religious dread, it pleased the senate that a dictator should be appointed for the purpose of appointing festivals.

​Publius Valerius Publicola was appointed, and Quintus Fabius Ambustus was given to him as master of the horse. It was decided that not only the tribes should go to offer supplications, but also the neighboring peoples, and an order was established for them, on which day each should offer supplication. In that year, severe judgments of the people were passed upon usurers, ​against whom, as is recorded, a day of trial had been appointed by the aediles. And the state, for no cause worthy of memory, reverted to an interregnum;

​during this interregnum, as if it might seem that this had been the purpose, both consuls were elected from the patricians: Marcus Valerius Corvus for the third time, and Aulus Cornelius Cossus.