Early Roman historiography shaped two possible versions of the establishment of the (patrician) consulship after the Veientine war, dating it to 483-474 and 406-396 BC. In pre-Fabian oral tradition, it was the capture of Veii that inspired the creation of a new legion with its own praetor to protect new Roman tribes on the Etruscan bank of the Tiber. A great problem is inconsistencies in early republican chronology because of combining earlier versions by later annalistic historians.
The traditional version of the establishment of the consulship in 509 BC and its restoration in 449 and 367 BC was a product of long time historiographical development.
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