. umae, if thestatement of Justin and Silius is to be 327 Nola was sufficiently powerful tosend 2000 soldiers to the assistance of 313 the town was taken by the Romans(Liv. viii. 23, ix. 28). It retained the Oscanlanguage (in which its name wag Nuvia) tillafter the Punic wars, though on coins the Greeklettering appears earlier. It remained faithfulto the Romans even after the battle of Cannae,when the other Campanian towns revolted to Hannibal; and it was allowed in consequenceto retain its own constituti
. umae, if thestatement of Justin and Silius is to be 327 Nola was sufficiently powerful tosend 2000 soldiers to the assistance of 313 the town was taken by the Romans(Liv. viii. 23, ix. 28). It retained the Oscanlanguage (in which its name wag Nuvia) tillafter the Punic wars, though on coins the Greeklettering appears earlier. It remained faithfulto the Romans even after the battle of Cannae,when the other Campanian towns revolted to Hannibal; and it was allowed in consequenceto retain its own constitution as an ally of theRomans (Liv. xxiii. 14-46). In the Social warit fell into the hands of the confederates, andwas taken by Sulla (Liv. Ep. 99), and probablyreceived a military colony. It was againcolonised by Augustus, and also by emperor Augustus died at Nola (Plin. ; Suet. Aug. 98; Tac. Ann. i. 5). It wasstill a wealthy city after Alaric invaded Italy(Aug. C. D. i. 10), but was destroyed byGenseric, 455). In the neighbourhood of. Coin of Nola, about 320 06c, head of Pallas : the helmet has on it an olive -wreathand (probably) an owl; NQAAIDN ; man-headed coinage of Nola ceased after 811 the town some of the most beautiful Campanianvases have been found in modern to an ecclesiastical tradition, churchbells were invented at Nola, and were hencecalled Campanae. Nomentanus, mentioned by Horace, as pro-verbially noted for extravagance and a riotousmode of living. The Scholiasts tell us that hisfull name was L. Cassius Nomentanus ( i. 1, 102, ii. 8, 23, 25, 60). Nomentum (Nomentanus: Mentana), ori-ginally a Latin town founded by Alba, butsubsequently a Sabine town, fourteen (Roman)miles from Rome, from which the Via Nomen-tana (more anciently Via Ficulensis) and thePorta Nomentana at Rome derived their neighbourhood of the town was celebratedfor its wine. (Verg. Aen. vi. 773; Liv. i. 38, , vi
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