ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

During the year a Latin colony was settled at the Castrum Frentinum in theterritory of Thurium. The commissioners who superintended the colonizationwere A. Manlius Volso, L. Apustius Fullo and Q. Aelius Tubero, the latter ofwhom had brought in the bill for its settlement. The colonists comprised 3000infantry and 300 cavalry, a small number in proportion to the amount of landavailable. Thirty iugera might have been allotted to each infantryman and 60 toeach of the cavalry, but on the advice of Apustius a third of the land was reserved,which could, were it desired, be assigned to fresh colonists. The infantry received20 iugera and the cavalry 40 each. (Trans. Roberts)Eodem hoc anno Uibonem colonia deducta est ex senatus consulto plebique scito.tria milia et septingenti pedites ierunt, trecenti equites; triumuiri deduxerunt eosQ. Naeuius M. Minucius M. Furius Crassipes; quina dena iugera agri data insingulos pedites sunt, duplex equitibus. Bruttiorum proxime fuerat ager; Brutticeperant de Graecis. Livy 35.40.5-6During the year the senate and people authorized the formation of a militarycolony at Vibo; 3700 infantry and 300 cavalry were sent there. The supervisors ofthe settlement were Q. Naevius, M. Minucius and M. Furius Crassipes. Fifteeniugera were allotted to each infantryman and double the number to the cavalry.The land had previously belonged to the Bruttii, who had taken it from theGreeks. (Trans. Roberts)Sipontum (1st): (Livy 34.45.3)Sipontum item in agrum qui Arpinorum fuerat coloniam ciuium Romanorum aliitriumuiri, D. Iunius Brutus M. Baebius Tamphilus M. Heluius deduxerunt. Livy34.45.3A colony of Roman citizens was also established at Sipontum on land which hadbelonged to Arpi. The commissioners in this case were D. Junius Brutus, MBaebius Tamphilus and M. Helvius. (Trans. Roberts)Tempsa and Croton: (Livy 34.45.4-5)Tempsam item et Crotonem coloniae ciuium Romanorum deductae. Tempsanusager de Bruttiis captus erat: Bruttii Graecos expulerant; Crotonem Graecihabebant. triumuiri Cn. Octauius L. Aemilius Paulus C. Laetorius Crotonem,Tempsam L. Cornelius Merula Q. C. Salonius deduxerunt. Livy 34.45.4-5Roman citizens were also sent as colonists to Tempsa and Croton; the territory ofthe former had been taken from the Brutii, who had expelled the Greeks from it;Croton was still held by the Greeks. The commissioners for the colonization atCroton were Cnaius Octavius, L. Aemilius Paulus and C. Laetorius; those forTempsa were L. Cornelius Merula and C. Salonius. (Trans. Roberts)Placentia and Cremona (suppl), Bononia: (Livy 37.46.9-47.2, 57.7-8)258