event
the First Samnite War
First Samnite War
The war of 343-341 BC, opened by the Campanian appeal and Rome's surrender-bound defense of Capua; the first of three that decided the mastery of central Italy.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 7 §29 greater wars
The First Samnite War (343-341 BC), which Livy opens here, naming it the first of the great trials—Samnites, then Pyrrhus, then Carthage.