28 Facts About Samnite Wars

Samnite Wars'storians have noted the similarities between the events leading to the First Samnite War and events, which according to Thucydides, caused the Peloponnesian War, but there are differences as well.

Samnite Wars'storians have noted the many similarities between the story of Publius Decius Mus, and an event said to have taken place in Sicily in 258 when the Romans were fighting the First Punic War against Carthage.

Samnite Wars thought Valerius Corvus' two Campanian victories could be doublets of Roman operations against Hannibal in the same area in 215 On the other hand, the entries in the Fasti Triumphales supports some measure of Roman success.

Samnite Wars was ravaging their territory when Samnite envoys came to ask for peace.

The First Samnite Wars War ended in a negotiated peace rather than one state dominating the other.

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The Romans had to accept that the Sidicini belonged to the Samnite Wars sphere, but their alliance with the Campani was a far greater prize.

Second Samnite Wars War resulted from tensions which arose from Roman interventions in Campania.

Samnite Wars killed the Samnite commander and was killed himself.

Samnite Wars was replaced by Gaius Fabius, who brought a new army and was told to conceal it.

Samnite Wars told the Romans to move their camp close to the city and the next night he took ten men on an almost impassable and steep path up to the citadel.

Samnite Wars set fire to the buildings near the city walls and took the city.

Samnite Wars went as far as Camerinum in Umbria, where the locals offered supplies and soldiers to the Romans.

Samnite Wars refused peace offers by Nuceria Alfaterna and besieged it into surrender.

Samnite Wars fought an unspecified battle where the Marsi joined the Samnites.

Samnite Wars defeated the Samnites in a pitched battle near Allifae and besieged their camp.

Samnite Wars instigated Titus Minucius to give battle, which dragged on until the late afternoon.

Samnite Wars travelled all over Samnium and everywhere he found peaceable people who gave him supplies.

Samnite Wars defeated the Marsi, seized Milionia, Plestina, and Fresilia and renewed the treaty with them.

Samnite Wars captured Taurasia and Cisauna in Samnium; he subdued all Lucania and brought back hostages.

Samnite Wars argues that this suggests divisions in Lucania over the alliance with Rome and that, if this was the case in 298 BC, Barbatus might have gone to Lucania to quell any possible local resistance to the alliance as well as to prevent Samnite raids and to collect the agreed hostages.

In Livy's account, Bovianum, the capital of the Pentri, the largest of the four Samnite Wars tribes, was captured in the first year of the war, which seems unlikely.

Samnite Wars then relented on condition that Publius Decius Mus, who had been consul with him in 308 BC, would be elected as his colleague.

Samnite Wars wrote that envoys from Sutrium, Nepete and Falerii in southern Etruria arrived in Rome with news that the Etruscan city-states were discussing suing for peace.

Samnite Wars caught up with their camp and defeated a force which was made unfit to fight by the burden of their loot.

Samnite Wars ravaged the territory of Volsinii and defeated the townsfolk who had come out of the city to defend it.

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Samnite Wars informed his colleague and then set out to intercept them with part of his forces, defeating them.

Samnite Wars thinks that his subsequent victory was magnified and is a fictitious anticipation of the father and son partnership between Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator and his son during the Second Punic War.

The result of the Samnite Wars was that Rome became the great power of Italy and controlled a large portion of it.