ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

others, throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. 18The original town of the OpiciVolscians, also named Fregellae, was at the Arx Fregellae (Rocca d'Arce). 19TheSamnites destroyed the Volscian Fregellae in 345 BCE.In 328 BCE, the first Latincolony at Fregellae was planted, not at the old Volscian settlement, but along the Liris inorder to hinder Samnite penetration into the area. 21The colonists were forced to abandonthis colony after the Romans were defeated at the Caudine Forks.Upon regainingcontrol in 313 BCE, the unknown commissioners re-founded the Latin colony ofFregellae on the same location, this time successfully.In 177 BCE, a deputation of Samnites and Paelignians cited that 4,000 familieshad left their territory and moved to Fregellae, although there had been no decrease of themilitary supplement they owed to Rome, nor an increase in the Fregellan contingent. 24This influx of Samnites and Paeligni into Fregellae was effectively almost a thirdcolonization.It is likely that they were drawn to the prestige and prosperity ofFregellae, especially in light of the transhumant sheep routes controlled by the colony.The citizens of the town rebelled against Rome in 125 BCE; in response, the town wasCoarelli (1998), pp .29 ff. There was also an Etruscan presence in the region, which may have influencedthe Roman progression into the area in the fourth century. Cf. Quilici Gigli (1970); Colonna (1974).19 Coarelli (1998), p. 32.20 Livy 8.23.6; Dion. Hal. 15.8.5. See also Livy 8.19.1 for the Volscian embassy (from Fabrateria andLuceria) to Rome to asked for protection from the Samnites. See Coarelli (1998), p. 30 and a discussion onp. 47 for the date, which is unknown, but between 354 and 328. It is most likely 345, as a Samnite responseto Roman occupation of Sora.21 Salmon (1970), p. 57 and n. 69 on pp. 174-5. Cf. Livy 8.22.2. Salmon speculates that the (unrecorded)number of settlers was probably 2,500, the same as Cales and Luceria. Almost simultaneously (329), theRomans planted the citizen colony of Tarracina on territory taken from the Volscian city of Privernum,south of Fregellae on the Tyrrhenian coast (Livy 8.21.11; Veil. Pat. 1.14.4).22 Salmon (1970), p. 58.23 Ibid. p. 59. Rome re-established both Cales and Fregellae, but it is unknown whether extra men were sentor not. The primary sources are silent on the re-founding of the colony, although it is a certainty from thesubsequent role of Fregellae in the Hannibalic War.24 Livy 41.8.6-12; Strabo 5.233, 237.157