Herculaneum, past, present & future . us that little is to be gleaned from only other passage which speaks of the early character ofHerculaneum does not mention the Greeks. Strabo ^ classesHerculaneum and Pompeii together in the following words : The Oscans used to possess both Herculaneum and herneighbour Pompeii, which lies on the river Sarno ; next camethe Etruscans and Pelasgians, and thereafter the Samnites ;but these also were expelled from the places. We have already discussed the Etruscan problem so far asour space permits. The Samnite and Roman conquests ofCampania, and what
Herculaneum, past, present & future . us that little is to be gleaned from only other passage which speaks of the early character ofHerculaneum does not mention the Greeks. Strabo ^ classesHerculaneum and Pompeii together in the following words : The Oscans used to possess both Herculaneum and herneighbour Pompeii, which lies on the river Sarno ; next camethe Etruscans and Pelasgians, and thereafter the Samnites ;but these also were expelled from the places. We have already discussed the Etruscan problem so far asour space permits. The Samnite and Roman conquests ofCampania, and what is recorded of their efi^ects upon Hercu-laneum, must now be briefly described. As we have said,we cannot here enter into a discussion of the problem of the 1 Beloch, Campanien, p. 218. - Dall Osso, Tribuna, March 11, 1907. 5 Sogliano, Studi di Topografa Storica e di Storia Antica, etc., Naples, 1901, p. 24. * Theophr. Hist. Plant, ix. 16, 6. * pior. i. 13 (18). Cf. Plutarch, Pyrrtus, 16, 17. Dion. Hal. i. 44. ^ Strabo, p. 247- PLVin. Fr\a Head, ArUwuis I Berenice J CHAP. II INHABITANTS OF THE DISTRICT 91 linguistic and ethnical relationship of the old Oscan or Auruncan population of Campania,^ whose last independentstrongholds were the marshes of the lower Liris and the ravinesof Rocca Monfina, with the Samnites who poured down fromthe mountains in the latter half of the fifth century beforeChrist and became the Campani, the Samnites of the , it is probably safe to conclude, from the rapidityand completeness of their amalgamation with the earlierinhabitants, that they were of kindred stock and speech. Thereseems also to be positive epigraphical evidence of this relation-ship.^ The briefest summary of Campanian history must heresuffice. Capua was stormed by the Samnites about 424 ,Cumae about 420 , and the whole of Campania was soonin their hands ; only Naples held out, and even she was forced,early in the fourth century, to adm
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