Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . ually magnificent in their way, but builtafter Roman supremacy had become a wellestablished fact, some time just before or afterthe Pyrrhic war. Is it not because Anagni, therichest and most sophisticated of the cities andthe one most likely to be swayed by ambition intodangerous expedients, joined with some of theother Hernican towns under her influence suchas Capitulum, in the anti-Roman confederacy ofSamnites, Etruscans and the rest? This was in306 Anagni then lost her autonomy andmost of her land. It is probable that at the sametime she lost her wa
Roman cities in Italy and Dalmatia . ually magnificent in their way, but builtafter Roman supremacy had become a wellestablished fact, some time just before or afterthe Pyrrhic war. Is it not because Anagni, therichest and most sophisticated of the cities andthe one most likely to be swayed by ambition intodangerous expedients, joined with some of theother Hernican towns under her influence suchas Capitulum, in the anti-Roman confederacy ofSamnites, Etruscans and the rest? This was in306 Anagni then lost her autonomy andmost of her land. It is probable that at the sametime she lost her walls, a punishment severaltimes inflicted by the Romans on faithlessfriends. Afterward the walls were probably^rebuilt, in the later style of straight-course blocks,such as prevailed until the time of the Gracchi,when the Hernicans of Anagni were no longerfeared and the city could become a Roman bul-wark in the struggle with Pyrrhus or with Car-thage. As we shall see it was also after somesiege, some struggle in which the defenses of.
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