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For centuries the Sabellian highlanders of the Apennines had struggled to force their way into the plains between the hills and the Mediterranean. But Tuscans and Latins had held them in check, and for the past hundred years the direction of their expansion had been not on Latium but east and south-east. They had begun to stream into Campania where they had become accustomed to a more civilized life, and in turn had become less warlike and ill-fitted to cope with their kinsmen of the hills. The most powerful group of the highlanders, the con ...

In 327, war broke out again between Samnite hill people and those on Campania's plain. The Samnites established a garrison in Neapolis -- a city inhabited by Greeks. Again people of the plain sought Rome's assistance, and again Rome went to war against the Samnites. The Romans soon confronted the Samnites of the middle Liris river valley (modern Liri), sparking the Second, or Great, Samnite War (326-304 BC), which lasted twenty years and was not a defensive venture for Rome. During the first half of the war Rome suffered serious defeats, but the second ha ...

As censor in 312, Appius Claudius Caecus began two large public works that illustrate the increased scale of the Roman state. The first was construction of an aqueduct, the aqua Appia, to bring water from some distance away to the city. The construction of this aqueduct can only suggest that the city of Rome's population growth had by now rendered local sources of water inadequate. (Moreover, subsequent construction of another aqueduct in 272, Anio Vetus, by the censor Manius Curius Dentatus, confirms that the growth of the urb ...

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