[2] In 477 BC, Gaius Horatius Pulvillus was elected consul with Titus Menenius Lanatus.
However, following the victories of Veii at the Battle of the Cremera and again against Menenius, Horatius was recalled to Rome, where the Veientes had occupied the Janiculum.
He won a battle in Janiculum, but the success was insufficient in driving the Etruscans out - the war had to be continued by the consuls of the following year.
[3][n 1] The tribunes of the plebs prevented the mobilisation of the army for the campaign against the Aequi, but finally gave in when the Sabines were found pillaging Roman fields.
The number of tribunes was increased to ten this year, with one tradition giving Horatius a leading role in accomplishing this.