samnite-latin

Updated: May 22, 2025

II. IV. South Etruria Roman II. V. League with the Hernici The well-known derivation is doubtless an invention. Perhaps no section of the Roman annals has been more disfigured than the narrative of the first Samnite-Latin war, as it stands or stood in Livy, Dionysius, and Appian. It runs somewhat to the following effect.

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

II. IV. South Etruria Roman II. V. League with the Hernici The well-known derivation is doubtless an invention. Perhaps no section of the Roman annals has been more disfigured than the narrative of the first Samnite-Latin war, as it stands or stood in Livy, Dionysius, and Appian. It runs somewhat to the following effect.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book II : From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy