[1] Following their defeat of the Roman army at the Battle of the Cremera in 477 BC, the Veientes marched on Rome and had occupied the Janiculum.
Both consuls, Servilius and his colleague Aulus Verginius, remained in Rome to deal with the threat.
The following morning Servilius' army took position at the foot of the Janiculum, and marched up the slope to attack the enemy.
[1] In 475 BC, immediately after Servilius' term as consul had ended, the tribunes Lucius Caedicius and Titus Statius brought charges against him for his poor conduct of the war against the Veientes.
In particular, Servilius upbraided the assembly for convicting Titus Menenius Lanatus the previous year, leading to his death from shame.