Ab urbe condita

After permission had been given them to state their case, they laid aside their truculent manner and requested that peace might be granted them and

also the right of making war against the Sidicines. They considered that they were the more justified in making this request because they had formed friendly relations with Rome when their affairs were prosperous, not as in the case of the Campanians when they were in adversity, and they were taking up arms against the Sidicines, who had always been their enemies and never