ProQuest Dissertations - Historia Antigua

captus ager erat; Etruscorum ante quam Ligurumfuerat. (Livy 41.13.5) The EtruscanPisans would have had motivation to complain to Rome about the valuable port territorybeing assigned to the Roman colonists instead of returned to the Pisans, as the pre-Ligurian owners of the port town. It is not necessary for the Pisans to quibble over theland that they donated to the settlers at Luca; this gift was most likely well-defined.Finally, why is the distinction between the foundations of Luna and Lucaimportant? As discussed later in this chapter, there seems to have been a split in thecolonial strategy during the second century, especially over whether to found Latincolonies or large citizen colonies. Thus it is critical to distinguish the Latin colony ofLuca (180) from the large Roman colony of Luna (177) in order to determine if thesefoundations were part of opposing colonization plans. (For further discussion, see belowpp. 91-94)After the foundation of Luna in 177 BCE, there is no record of another colonyfounded in Northern Italy until the Gracchan colonizations at the end of the secondcentury. Salmon posits that there was no significant militaristic need for further coloniesat this time. 74Due to gaps in the primary source for this period, Livy, it is difficult toascertain the true nature of colonization efforts in the middle of the second centuryBCE. 75Thus, this study of colonies founded in Northern Italy more or less arbitrarily74 Salmon (1970), p. 109.75 The citizen colony of Auximum, on the Adriatic coast, may have been founded in 174 or in 157 or later,but its uncertain date and unknown commissioners make it unsuitable for this study. Livy 41.27.10mentions the name in the context of the censor's contracts of 174, but with Calatia, which was not a colony;Velleius Paterculus (1.15.3) dates the colony to 157 BCE.71