The senate, beginning to realise the seriousness of the situation, debated the crisis and chose to appoint Manius Valerius Maximus as dictator.
Verginius successfully invaded and waged war against the Volsci, and captured the town of Velitrae in which a Roman colony was planted.
[2] After the armies returned to Rome, the dictator resigned his office in disgust at the senate's unwillingness to reach a compromise with the people.
[3] In an attempt to solve the secession, the senate selected a group of ten envoys, among which Verginius was one, to treat with the leaders of the plebeians.
[4] Aulus, or possibly his brother Titus, is listed by Festus, who in conjecture with the writings of Valerius Maximus, makes it possible that Verginius was one of the military tribunes in 486 BC who was burned at the Circus Maximus by Publius Mucius Scaevola for conspiring with the consul Spurius Cassius Vecellinus.