Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
The first Samnite War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- The Licinian Rogations
- The new curule Dignities of the year 384
- Internal History down to the complete establishment of the plebeian Consulship
- On the Uncial Rate of Interest
- History of the Wars from 384 to 406
- Rome in Alliance with Latium
- The earliest Constitution of the manipular Legion
- The first Samnite War
- The Latin War
- The Laws of the Dictator Q. Publilius
- Internal History down to the Caudine Peace
- Alexander of Epirus
- Forein Relations down to the second Samnite War
- The second Samnite War
- Relations between Rome and the Nations bordering on Samnium after the Peace
- The Etruscan Wars down to the beginning of the third Samnite War
- Internal History from the Caudine Peace down to the third Samnite War
- Cn. Flavius
- The Censorship of Q. Fabius and P. Decius
- The Ogulnian Law
- Various Occurrences of the same Period
- The third Samnite War and the Others of the same Period
- Internal History from the Beginning of the second Samnite War down to the Lucanian
- Miscellaneous Occurrences of the same Period
- The Etruscan and Gallic War
- The Lucanian, Bruttian, fourth Samnite, and Tarentine Wars
- Epirus and Pyrrhus
- The Roman and Macedonian Tactics
- The War with Pyrrhus
- Entire Subjugation of Italy, and the Political Rights of the Italian Allies
- Internal History and Miscellaneous Occurrences of the Period from the Lucanian down to the first Punic War
- The first Punic War
- Index
- ERRATA
Summary
The Samnites were then in the fulness of their strength: in extent of territory, and of population too, they were certainly far superior to Rome and her allies. Their tribes extended from the Lower sea, where they separated Campania from Lucania, right up to the Upper: towards the Liris, in the mountains of Lucania, and down upon the plains of Apulia, their territories embraced far more than the space, which bears the name of Samnium upon the maps: but the Campanians and Lucanians had become estranged from the mother people. Samnium itself however was not a single state, but a confederacy of different and independent countries, which were consequently jealous of their allies in maintaining their own independence. One of them, the Pentrians, took no part in one campaign in the midst of the war against the Romans: a part of the Samnites received the Roman municipium: namely, the Caudines, of whom Sp. Postumius was a municeps. According to all appearance there were four of these Samnite tribes, in accordance with the regulative number of the Sabellians, like that of the Marsian confederacy: the Caudines, Hirpinians, Pentrians, and Frentanians: the latter of whom had certainly not become separated from them yet, as they are at that time expressly reckoned among the Samnites by foreiners. The southern country from Surrentum to the Silarus may have contained none but allied or subject places, and not have formed a part of the confederacy.
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- The History of Rome , pp. 107 - 127Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1842