[3] Four years after serving as dictator, Lucius Papirius was elected consul along with Caecilius Duilius in 336 BC.
The Ausones, a people inhabiting the city of Cales, had joined forces with their allies and neighbors the Sidicini to oppose the Romans.
After achieving victory against the Ausones and Sidicini in the field, Lucius Papirius and Caecilius Duilius decided to not actively pursue their defeated foes back to their cities and destroy them.
Therefore, the next year the Senate elected Marcus Valerius Corvus, a renowned military commander, to deal with the Sidicini in a way that the previous consuls had not.
Lucius Plautius Vennox at this time was travelling from Privernum to the territory of Fundi where he laid waste to the farmland there.
[5] In the year prior to Lucius Papirius' consulship, Alexander I of Epirus had led an expedition in southern Italy.
Lucius Papirius Crassus was also given command of the city of Rome, which infuriated the former Master of Horse, Quintus Fabius.