the Samnites

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §37 the Samnites

  A powerful Oscan-speaking people of the central Apennines; they seized Capua in 423 BC and would become Rome's great rivals for Italy.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §19 the Samnites

  The powerful confederacy of the southern Apennines whose envoys here first seek Roman friendship—soon Rome's great rival for Italy.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §1 the Sabellian country

  'Sabellian' = the land of the Samnites, the Oscan-speaking highland confederation of the central Apennines.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §1 Samnites

  The mountain peoples of central Italy whose long wars with Rome dominate this book.

• The History of Rome, Book 10 §1 Samnites

  The Oscan-speaking confederation of the central Apennines, Rome's great adversary through the Samnite Wars.

• The History of Rome, Book 23 §5 the Samnite enemy

  The peoples of the central Apennines, Rome's great rivals in the long Samnite Wars Varro recalls.

• The History of Rome, Book 24 §20 Fabius advanced into the Samnites

  The peoples of the central Apennines, Rome's old rivals; the Caudine Samnites' fields Fabius now harried for their revolt.

• The History of Rome, Book 27 §1 Samnites

  The Samnite peoples of the central Apennines, longtime rivals of Rome.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §6 Samnite

  The Samnites of the central Apennines, who revolted from Rome to Pyrrhus.

• The History of Rome, Book 41 §12 Samnites

  A people of the central Italian Apennines, complaining of households lost to the colony of Fregellae.

• The History of Rome, Fragments §28 The Italian peoples revolted

  The Samnites and other Italian allies whose revolt (the Social War) won them Roman citizenship.