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Updated: September 15, 2025
In Italy the scenes of disorder, which were among the immediate painful consequences of the Hannibalic war, seemed now to be renewed; all at once the Romans were obliged to seize and execute in the capital 150, in Minturnae 450, in Sinuessa even 4000 slaves . Still worse, as may be conceived, was the state of the provinces.
Since the Hannibalic war the Roman government had displayed no such energy in external action; as compared with the lax and incapable administration of the oligarchy, the democratic military opposition had most brilliantly made good its title to grasp and wield the reins of the state.
On the other hand the Hannibalic war had fearfully devastated southern Italy and had ruined, in addition to a number of smaller townships, its two largest cities, Capua and Tarentum, both once able to send into the field armies of 30,000 men.
Moreover, besides a number of monographs e. g. on the descent of the Roman people, on the Roman gentes descended from Troy, on the tribes there was added, as a larger and more independent supplement, the treatise "Of the Life of the Roman People" a remarkable attempt at a history of Roman manners, which sketched a picture of the state of domestic life, finance, and culture in the regal, the early republican, the Hannibalic, and the most recent period.
He was a younger contemporary of Andronicus his poetical activity began considerably before, and probably did not end till after, the Hannibalic war and felt in a general sense his influence; he was, as is usually the case in artificial literatures, a worker in all the forms of art produced by his predecessor, in epos, tragedy, and comedy, and closely adhered to him in the matter of metres.
After the silver piece had been reduced in the Hannibalic war from 1/72 to 1/84 of a pound, it retained for more than three centuries quite the same weight and the same quality; no alloying took place.
In Campania Capua along with a number of minor communities in the neighbourhood was broken up in consequence of its revolt from Rome in the Hannibalic war.
The tragic drama in Rome was not exactly later in its rise than the comic; but the far greater expense of putting a tragedy on the stage which was undoubtedly felt as a consideration of moment, at least during the Hannibalic war as well as the nature of the audience retarded the development of tragedy.
Since the Hannibalic war the Roman government had displayed no such energy in external action; as compared with the lax and incapable administration of the oligarchy, the democratic military opposition had most brilliantly made good its title to grasp and wield the reins of the state.
But neither the multitude, nor even the ruling lords of the average stamp, could rid themselves of the profound alarm produced by the Hannibalic war; and the Roman merchants with envious eyes beheld the city even now, when its political power was gone, possessed of extensive commercial dependencies and of a firmly established wealth which nothing could shake.
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