Satricum

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 2 §39 Satricum

  A town of southern Latium, given over to the Volsci by Coriolanus.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §16 a colony of two thousand Roman citizens to be led out to Satricum

  A town of southern Latium, planted as a Roman colony here, repeatedly the seat of the Volsco-Latin war and later burned by the Latins.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §27 Satricum

  A Volscian-Latin town, resettled as a colony from Antium and contested through the book; only its temple of Mater Matuta was spared the torch.

• The History of Rome, Book 8 §1 Satricum

  A town in the Volscian country, site of an indecisive battle in chapter 1.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §16 Satricum

  A community of Roman citizens that defected to the Samnites and was retaken by double betrayal.