To meet the threat and because of the popular political concerns at the time, in 494 BC Valerius was appointed dictator by the Roman senate.
Four of these legions were assigned to the dictator to deal with the Sabines who were regarded as the most serious of the three military threats, and three to each of the consuls to meet the Aequi and the Volsci.
[3] After the armies' return to Rome, Valerius requested the senate to deal with the ongoing debt issues which were afflicting the people.
[4] In AD 2, a statue of Manius Valerius Maximus was erected in the Forum of Augustus alongside other "great men of Rome", under which was an elogia.
If it was either of the brothers to Poplicola (both described as elderly) they would have been extremely old by 463 BC when this Augur is said to have succumbed during a large pestilence in Rome.