ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

settlers, which they were granted in 169 BCE.Despite its distance from other colonies,Aquileia became an important marketplace for the trade of sheep, wool, and sheepskin, aswell as goods from local populations such as the Illyrian tribes. 69There is some debate over the last two colonies founded in Northern Italy, mostlybased on emendations in the text of Livy. 70Livy 40.43.1 indicates that in 180 BCE, theEtruscan town of Pisa offered land to Rome in order to found a Latin colony; Q. FabiusButeo and the two Popillii Laenates, Marcus and Publius were made commissioners tofound this unnamed colony. Livy 41.13.4-5 notes the colonization of the large, citizencolony of Luna in 177 BCE, to which P. Aelius, M. Aemilius Lepidus and Cn. Siciniusled 2,000 colonists. Finally, for the year 168 BCE, Livy 45.13.10 records that an embassyfrom Pisa came to Rome to complain that the colonists of Luna had expelled them fromtheir land. The confusion lies in Livy's lack of a name for the Latin colony and the factthat the Pisans complain about citizens of Luna stealing their territory. VelleiusPaterculus 1.15.2 and Pliny NH3.50 offer the name Luca as a possibility for the unnamedLatin colony of 180, but Velleius dates Luca to four years after Graviscae, i.e. 177 BCE,and Pliny's list of colonies and towns in the area is somewhat muddled, thus furtherconfusing the issue.Livy 43.17.1, The commissioners for the supplement were T. Annius Luscus, P. Decius Subulo, and M.Cornelius Cethegus, none of whom were high ranking magistrates. The lack of interest in this supplement ismost likely because the patronage of the colony still lay with the original founders.69 Frayn(1993),p. 151.70 The pertinent passages are Livy 40.43.1, 41.13.4-5,45.13.10, Veil. Pat. 1.15.2, and Plin. HN 3.50. Forthe text and emendation possibilities of these passages see Appendix 1 and RE s.v. 'Luca,' which outlinesthe original 19 th and early 20 th century emendations by Mommsen, Pais et al. Modern scholars tend to glossthis issue: Laffi (2007), pp. 24-5 notes the confusion of the sources, and pp. 42-43 says that the Luca wasprobably established in 180 BCE.69