ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

354 and 341, and thus constituted a casus belli for the second Samnite War. 17 After theRoman disaster at the Caudine Forks in 321, the colonists were made to evacuate Calesand Fregellae.Toward the end of the second Samnite War, when the Romans had recoveredfrom their defeat, they re-colonized Fregellae as well as encircling the Samnite territorywith a series of other Latin colonies. 18The first was Luceria, probably elected in 315 andestablished at a Samnite bastion near the plains of Apulia. 19Although Luceria was somedistance from other towns, it became a notable market for wool, sheepskins, andlivestock. 20The colonization of Suessa Aurunca and Saticula followed in 313. Theformer occupied an Auruncan town, which controlled one of the roads to Capua and thuswas ideally located for a market town.The latter was founded by M. Valerius MaximusCorvus, D. Iunius Brutus Scaeva, and P. Fulvius Longus in a border fortress overlookingthe paths used by the Caudini Samnites.This year, too, the island of Pontiae wascolonized in order to control the sea route and defend the coast off the modern Bay ofNaples. 23Later that year, the consuls of 312, M. Valerius and P. Decius, were ordered bythe senate to elect three commissioners to found another Latin colony on the Liris,17 Salmon (1970), p.57.18 We have no record that Cales was also reinforced at this time. A supplement was sent out to the colonyin 185 under the auspices of P. Claudius Pulcher, which we only know through an inscription found at thecolony. (Inscr. Ital. 13.3, 70a (=CIL 6.1283 or I 2 .1.32 p. 200). Cf. Salmon (1970), pp. 90 and 102.19 Livy 9.26.1; Diod. Sic. 19.72.8, Cic. Att. 7.20, 8.1. Cf. Salmon (1970), p. 58. Salmon (n. 72 p. 175)notes that Velleius Paterculus (1.14.4) is wrong that Luceria dated to 323. Roman colonies were dated fromtheir foundation, in Luceria's case in 314, according to Livy.20 Frayn (1993), pp. 40-41,21 Livy 9.28, Salmon (1970), pp. 58-9. Frayn (1993), p. 40.22 Festus, Gloss. Lat. p458 L; Veil. Pat. 1.14.4.23 Salmon (1970), p. 59. Diod. Sic. 19.101.3, Livy 9.28.7.59