“The allies exclaimed that the war must be continued, and the tyrant exterminated, without which the liberty of Greece would be always in danger. It would have been better not to have taken up arms at all than to lay them down without having attained the end. The consul replied, ‘If the siege of Lacedæmon retained the army a long time, what other troops could Rome oppose to a monarch (Antiochus) so powerful and so formidable?’” (Titus Livius, XXXIV. 33.)
565
Titus Livius, XXXIII. 12.
566
Titus Livius, XXXIV. 58.
567
“Other peoples of Greece had shown in this way a no less culpable forgetfulness of the benefits of the Roman people.” (Titus Livius, XXXVI. 22.)
568
Titus Livius, XXXVII. 45.
569
Appian, Wars of Hannibal, 43.
570
Titus Livius, XL. 38; XLII. 22.
571
Roads from Arezzo to Bologna, from Placentia to Rimini (Titus Livius, XXXIX. 2), and from Bologna to Aquileia.
572
Roman Colonies – 488-608.
Æsulum (507), or Æsium, according to Mommsen, Jesi in Umbria, on the River Æsis.
Alsium (507), a maritime colony, Etruria (Via Aurelia); Palo, near Porto.
Fregenæ (509), a maritime colony, Etruria (Via Aurelia); Torre Maccarese.
Pyrgi (before 536), maritime colony, Etruria (Via Aurelia); Santa Severa.
Castrum (555), Pagus, near Sylaceum; Bruttium, near Squillace; united in 631 to the colony Minerviæ.
Puteoli (560), maritime colony, Campania; Pozzuoli; Prefecture.
Vulturnum (560), maritime colony, Campania; Castelamare, or Castel di Volturno; Prefecture.
Liternum (560), maritime colony, Campania; Tor di Patria, near the Lago di Patria; Prefecture.
Salernum (560), maritime colony, Campania; Salerno; decreed three years before.
Buxentum (560), maritime colony, Lucania; Policastro.
Sipontum (560), maritime colony, Apulia; Santa Maria di Siponto; recolonised.
Tempsa (Temesa) (560), maritime colony, Bruttium; perhaps near to Torre del Piano del Casale.
Croton (560), maritime colony, Bruttium; Cotrone.
Potentia (570), maritime colony, Picenum; Porto di Potenza, or di Ricanati.
Pisaurum (570), maritime colony, Gaulish Umbria (Via Flaminia); Pesaro.
Parma (571), Cispadane Gaul (Via Æmilia); Parma; Prefecture.
Mutina (571), Cispadane Gaul (Via Æmilia); Modena; Prefecture.
Saturnia (571), Etruria (centre); Saturnia.
Graviscæ (573), maritime colony, Etruria (south) (Via Aurelia); San Clementino or Le Saline (?).
Luna (577), Etruria (north), (Via Aurelia); Luni, near Sarzana.
Auximum (597), maritime colony, Picenum; Osimo.
Latin Colonies: 488-608.
Firmum (490), Picenum (Via Valeria); Fermo.
Æsernia (491), Samnium; Isernia.
Brundisium (510), Iapygian Calabria (Via Egnatia); Brindisi.
Spoletum (513), Umbria (Via Flaminia); Spoleto.
Cremona (536), Transpadane Gaul; Cremona; reinforced in 560.
Placentia (536), Cispadane Gaul (Via Æmilia); Piacenza.
Copiæ (territory of Thurium) (561), Lucania.
Vibo, or Vibona Valentia, called also Hipponium, Bruttium (565, or perhaps 515); Bibona. Monte-Leone.
Bononia (565), Cispadane Gaul (Via Æmilia); Bologna.
Aquileia (573), Transpadane Gaul; Aquileia.
Carteia (573), Spain; St. Roque, in the Bay of Gibraltar.