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According to Livy, once peace with Rome had been concluded, the
Samnites attacked the Sidicini with the same forces they had deployed against Rome. Facing defeat, the Sidicini tried to surrender themselves to Rome, but their surrender was rejected by the senate as coming far too late. The Sidicini
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hills overlooking Capua (the main
Campani city) and, having left a strong force to hold them, marched into the plain between the hills and Capua. There they defeated the Campanians in a second battle and drove them within their walls. At this point the Campanians decided to surrender themselves
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The
Sidicini do not appear in that war or ever again in history, but Teanum goes on as Teanum Sidicinum and its territory as Sidicinus Ager. If the Romans had fought a great battle and had obliterated the Sidicini, there would be some mention of it or some evidence of a discontinuity at Teano.
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Modern historians are in some dispute whether this surrender really took place or was invented to absolve Rome of treaty breaking, but generally agree that Rome formed some kind of alliance with Capua. The Romans broke their treaty of friendship with the
Samnites to help the Campani. The First
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Instead, the city prospered. Smith accords with the general conclusion that between 335 and 326, most likely in 334, the
Sidicini consented to lay down their arms and become part of the greater Roman municipality. Livy's omission remains unexplained.
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Samnite War ended in 341 with a negotiated peace and renewal of the former treaty between them and Rome. Rome retained her
Campanian alliance, but accepted that the Sidicini belonged to the Samnite sphere.
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their capital. In 336 BC the Ausoni joined the
Sidicini's side of the war. However the Romans came to the defence of the Aurunci, defeating Sidicini and Ausoni. The capital of the Ausoni,
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then turned to the Latins who had already taken up arms on their own account. The
Campanians joined the war as well, and led by the Latins a large army of these allied peoples invaded
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unconditionally into the power of Rome, following which the Romans felt compelled to intervene to protect their new subjects against further
Samnite attacks.
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declared war on them. The
Samnites sought to take Teano because of its position as a regional crossroad. The Sidicini then sought the help of the
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In 337 BC the Sidicini declared war on the Aurunci, and defeated them and forced them out of their capital city of
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of ancient Italy. Their territory extended northward from their capital,
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964:Osco-Umbrian languages
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129:Map of ancient Samnium
902:Proto-Italic language
620:Salmon, E.T. (1967).
601:Oakley, S.P. (1998).
593:Ab Urbe Condita Libri
560:Bibliotheca historica
549:. Firenze, Vallecchi.
523:Cornell, Tim (1995).
452:, p. vii.19.3β4.
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323:Salmon 1967
299:Roller 2014
275:Devoto 1931
948:Categories
924:) are now
870:Lusitanian
789:Paelignian
507:References
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287:Smith 2018
212:Campanians
163:Campanians
876:Oenotrian
804:Vestinian
486:Livy n.d.
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263:Citations
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799:Sidicini
774:Hernican
752:Siculian
730:Lanuvian
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557:(n.d.).
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926:extinct
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881:Venetic
857:Unknown
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830:Aequian
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