[1] At the instigation of Crassus, the decemvirs illegally held on to power the following year, and refused to allow the election of consuls.
[4][1] In 449 BC, a war escalated with the Sabines setting up in Eretum and with the Aequi fortified on Mount Algidus.
[5] Meanwhile the soldier Lucius Siccius Dentatus, former tribune of the plebs and staunch opponent of the patricians was murdered.
[5] The soldiers in both armies mutinied and elected twenty military tribunes in order to command in the place of the decemvirs.
Appius Claudius Crassus and Spurius Oppius Cornicen remained in Rome where they were imprisoned.