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As regards the Sabines and Aequi Rome appears in a more advantageous position; the connection which afterwards became so intimate with the more distant Hernici must have had at least its beginning under the monarchy, and the united Latins and Hernici enclosed on two sides and held in check their eastern neighbours.
A certain partition of functions withal, at least in the supreme military command, might doubtless take place from the outset the one consul for example taking the field against the Aequi, and the other against the Volsci but it had in no wise binding force, and each of the colleagues was legally at liberty to interfere at any time in the province of the other.
A certain partition of functions withal, at least in the supreme military command, might doubtless take place from the outset the one consul for example taking the field against the Aequi, and the other against the Volsci but it had in no wise binding force, and each of the colleagues was legally at liberty to interfere at any time in the province of the other.
Far more vehement and lasting was the resistance of the Aequi, who, having their settlements to the eastward of Rome as far as the valleys of the Turano and Salto and on the northern verge of the Fucine lake, bordered with the Sabines and Marsi, and of the Volsci, who to the south of the Rutuli settled around Ardea, and of the Latins extending southward as far as Cora, possessed the coast almost as far as the river Liris along with the adjacent islands and in the interior the whole region drained by the Liris.
The familiar Sound in these Names destroys the Majesty of the Description; for this Reason I do not mention this Part of the Poem but to shew the natural Cast of Thought which appears in it, as the two last Verses look almost like a Translation of Virgil. ... Cadit et Ripheus justissimus unus Qui fuit in Teucris et servantissimus aequi, Diis aliter visum est ...
Then stept a gallant Squire forth, Witherington was his Name, Who said, I would not have it told To Henry our King for Shame, That e'er my Captain fought on Foot, And I stood looking on. We meet with the same Heroic Sentiments in Virgil. Non pudet, O Rutuli, cunctis pro talibus unam Objectare animam? numerone an viribus aequi Non sumus ... ?
At the Expense of the Aequi and Volsci League with the Hernici
With still greater energy the extension of the Roman rule was prosecuted in central Italy. As the subjugation of the Aequi and Hernici was the immediate sequel of the first Samnite war, so that of the Sabines followed on the end of the second.
They have with us the fate of older paradoxes. "Cum ventum ad VERUM est, SENSUS MORESQUE repugnant, Atque ipsa utilitas, justi prope mater et aequi." Perhaps bold speculations are more acceptable because more new to you than to us, who have been long since satiated with them.
The feebler Aequi were thenceforth but little formidable; it was sufficient to undertake from time to time a plundering expedition against them. The Rutuli also, who bordered with Latium on the south in the plain along the coast, early succumbed; their town Ardea was converted into a Latin colony as early as 312. The Volscians opposed a more serious resistance.
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