Caius Calpurnius, who held that province as propraetor, had written word that the Arretians had originated such a scheme.

Accordingly Marcellus, consul elect, was immediately sent thither to look into the affair, and if it should appear to him of sufficient consequence, to send for his army and transfer the war from Apulia to Etruria.

The Tuscans, checked by the alarm thus occasioned, desisted.

To the ambassadors of Tarentum, who solicited a treaty of peace securing to them their liberty and the enjoyment of their own laws, the senate answered, that they might return when the consul Fabius came to Rome.

The Roman and plebeian games were this year repeated each for one day.