aequian

Updated: May 27, 2025

The stock of men capable of arms in this district, on which Rome's ability to defend herself had once mainly depended, had so totally vanished, that people read with astonishment and perhaps with horror the accounts of the annals sounding fabulous in comparison with things as they stood respecting the Aequian and Volscian wars.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

The stock of men capable of arms in this district, on which Rome's ability to defend herself had once mainly depended, had so totally vanished, that people read with astonishment and perhaps with horror the accounts of the annals sounding fabulous in comparison with things as they stood respecting the Aequian and Volscian wars.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)