The consuls elected were Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (for the third time), and Lucius Cornelius Maluginensis.  The census was taken during that year; it was a matter of religious scruple that the lustrum should be closed, on account of the seizure of the Capitol and the death of the consul.  In the consulship of Quintus Fabius and Lucius Cornelius, disturbances woke out immediately at the beginning of the year.  The tribunes were urging on the commons.  The Latins and Hernicans brought word that a formidable war was threatening on the part of the Volscians and AEquans; that the troops of the Volscians were now in the neighbourhood of Antium.  Great apprehension was also entertained, that the colony itself would revolt:  and with difficulty the tribunes were prevailed upon to allow the war to be attended to first.  The consuls divided their respective spheres of action.  Fabius was commissioned to march the legions to Antium:  to Cornelius was assigned the duty of keeping guard at Rome, lest any portion of the enemy’s troops, as was the practice of the Aequans, should advance to commit depredations.  The Hernicans and Latins were ordered to supply soldiers in accordance with the treaty; and of the army two thirds consisted of allies, the remainder of Roman citizens.  When the allies arrived on the appointed day, the consul pitched his camp outside the porta Capena.[30] Then, after the army had been reviewed, he set out for Antium, and encamped not far from the town and fixed quarters of the enemy.  There, when the Volscians, not venturing to risk an engagement, because the contingent from the Aequans had not yet arrived, were making preparations to see how they might protect themselves quietly within their ramparts, on the following day Fabius drew up not one mixed army of allies and citizens, but three bodies of the three states separately around the enemy’s works.  He himself occupied the centre with the Roman legions.  He ordered them to watch for the signal for action, so that at the same time both the allies might begin the action together, and retire together if he should give orders to sound a retreat.  He also posted the proper cavalry of each division behind the front line.  Having thus assailed the camp at three different points, he surrounded it:  and, pressing on from every side, he dislodged the Volscians, who were unable to withstand his attack, from the rampart.  Having then crossed the fortifications, he drove out from the camp the crowd who were panic-stricken and inclining to make for one direction.  Upon this the cavalry, who could not have easily passed over the rampart, having stood by till then as mere spectators of the fight, came up with them while flying in disorder over the open plain, and enjoyed a share of the victory, by cutting down the affrighted troops.  Great was the slaughter of the fugitives, both in the camp and outside the lines; but the booty was still greater, because the enemy were scarcely able to carry off their arms with them; and the entire army would have been destroyed, had not the woods covered them in their flight.