Ebutius his master of the horse, marching with a
numerous army of horse and foot, met the enemy's forces at the lake
Regillus, in the territory of Tusculum, and, because it was heard that
the Tarquins were in the army of the Latins, their rage could not be
restrained, but they must immediately come to an engagement. Accordingly
the battle was more obstinate and fierce than usual. For the generals
were present not only to direct matters by their orders, but even
charged one another, exposing their own persons. And there was hardly
any of the principal officers of either side who came off unwounded
except the Roman dictator. As Postumius was drawing up his men and
encouraging them in the first line, Tarquinius Superbus, though now
enfeebled by age, spurred on his horse with great fury to attack him;
but being wounded in the side, he was carried off by a party of his own
men to a place of safety. In the other wing also, AEbutius, master of the
horse, had charged Octavius Mamilius; nor was his approach unobserved by
the Tusculan general, who also briskly spurred on his horse to encounter
him. And such was their impetuosity as they advanced with hostile
spears, that AEbutius was run through the arm and Mamilius struck on the
breast. The Latins received the latter into their second line; but as
AEbutius was not able to wield his lance with his wounded arm, he retired
from the battle. The Latin general, not in the least discouraged by his
wound, stirs up the fight; and because he saw his own men begin to give
ground, sent for a company of Roman exiles to support them, commanded by
Tarquin's son. This body, inasmuch as they fought with greater fury from
having been banished from their country, and lost their estates,
restored the battle for a short time.

20. When the Romans were beginning to give ground on that side, M.
Valerius, brother to Poplicola, having observed young Tarquin boldly
figuring away at the head of his exiles, fired with the renown of his
family, that the slaying of the princes might belong to the same family
whose glory their expulsion had been, clapped spurs to his horse, and
with his javelin presented made towards Tarquin. Tarquin retired from
his violent enemy into a battalion of his own men. As Valerius rushed
rashly into the line of the exiles, one of them ran him sideways through
the body, and as the horse was in no way retarded by the wound of his
rider, the expiring Roman fell to the ground, his arms