. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ce. 8 De Legibus, ii. 2, 5; as quoted by Strachan-Davidson, Cicero> p. 6. n6 ROME AS A REPUBLIC. corrupt. What elements there were remaining in the raceof vitality and strength were gradually absorbed by Rome,and the Etruscan people and the Etruscan civilization asdistinct factors in history disappeared from the world. 76. The First Sam-nite War ().—The power ofthe Etruscans havingbeen broken, themost formidablecompetitors of theRomans for suprem-acy in Italy were theSamnites, rough andwarlike mountaineerswho
. Rome : its rise and fall ; a text-book for high schools and colleges. ce. 8 De Legibus, ii. 2, 5; as quoted by Strachan-Davidson, Cicero> p. 6. n6 ROME AS A REPUBLIC. corrupt. What elements there were remaining in the raceof vitality and strength were gradually absorbed by Rome,and the Etruscan people and the Etruscan civilization asdistinct factors in history disappeared from the world. 76. The First Sam-nite War ().—The power ofthe Etruscans havingbeen broken, themost formidablecompetitors of theRomans for suprem-acy in Italy were theSamnites, rough andwarlike mountaineerswho held the Apen-nines to the south-east of Latium. Theywere worthy rivals ofthe Children ofMars., The succes-sive struggles betweenthese martial racesare known as theFirst, Second, andThird Samnite extended over a period of half a century, and in theircourse involved almost all the states of Italy. The beginning of the struggle was brought about in thisway. The Samnites were troubling the people of Cam-pania. The Campanians applied to Rome for help against. Samnite Warrior. (From a vase.) THE CONQUEST OF ITALY. I I 7 the mountain raiders. The appeal was favorably receivedby the Romans, and thus the great duel began. Of the first of this series of Samnite wars we know verylittle, although Livy wrote a long, but palpably unreliable,account of it. 77. The Revolt of the Latin Cities (340-338 ). — Inthe midst of the Samnite struggle, Rome was confrontedby a dangerous revolt of her Latin allies (par. 51). Leav-ing the war unfinished, she turned her forces against theinsurgents. The strife between the Romans and their Latin allieswas simply, in principle, the old contest within the walls ofthe capital between the patricians and the plebeians trans-ferred to a larger arena. As the patricians, before theequalization of the orders, had claimed for themselvesalone the right to manage the affairs of the state, so nowdid the united orders claim for Rome alone the right toma
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