| Strictly speaking the Samnite tribes were Sabellian, and their language, Oscan, a Sabellian dialect. |
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| Players interested in a more historically accurate game may place the Etruscan and Samnite reinforcements separately. |
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| The large number of houses built during the Samnite period made it necessary to build fewer houses in the Roman period. |
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| Initially the color was bronze, with some parts painted white to emphasize the inscriptions at the top on the plate-shaped shield Samnite. |
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| He showed a particular vindictiveness against the Samnite troops which his enemies had raised in large numbers, evoking an echo of the Social War. |
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| A visit to the Samnite Museum, where pre-roman and roman finds found in the area of Benevento are kept: arms, jewels, buckles, funeral furnishing from different necropolis of the area. |
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| By 304 BC, the Romans had effectively annexed the greater degree of the Samnite territory, founding several colonies. |
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| They built forts in the mountains which are studied today, as are the ruins of a large Samnite temple and theater at Pietrabbondante. |
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| The Second Samnite War, from 327 BC to 304 BC, was much longer and more serious for both the Romans and Samnites. |
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| The remains of the imposing cyclopean walls of the Volscian period, restored and added to in Samnite, Roman, and medieval times, surround the town. |
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| Samnite Capua became the ally of Rome about 340 bc, and the whole region was Romanized by the end of the 4th century and later flourished as a colonia and then a region of the Roman Empire. |
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| These tribes, who spoke Oscan and were probably an offshoot of the Sabini, apparently referred to themselves not as Samnite but by the Oscan form of the word, which appears in Latin as Sabine. |
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| Then, toward the end of the 5th century, the warlike Samnites, an Italic tribe, conquered Campania, and Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae became Samnite towns. |
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| Seven years after their defeat, with Roman dominance of the area looking assured, the Samnites rose again and defeated a Roman army in 298 BC, to open the Third Samnite War. |
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