[2] The two consuls led separate campaigns against the Aequi, Medullinus in Hernician territory.
[2][a 2] In an initial battle the Aequi were victorious, and the Roman forces led by Furius were besieged in their camp.
The Roman attack initially succeeded, however the consul's brother Publius, (who had been consul in 472 BC and was serving as a legatus under his brother's command) led his forces too far from the main Roman force, and was cut off and killed.
This led the consul to pursue him, and Spurius Furius himself was wounded, and only just rescued from the enemy.
But then the proconsul Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus arrived with Latin and Hernican forces, and attacked the Aequian army.