CHRONOLOGY   TERMINOLOGY
 
496

Battle of Lake Regillus
Foedus Cassianum

  dilectus ("military levy"); tributum ("war tax"); deditio in fidem ("ritual surrender")
407 Sack of Veii by Rome   ager Romanus ("Roman land")
390 Sack of Rome by Gauls   cives ("citizens")
358 Rome preeminent in Latin League   cives sine suffragio et iure honorum ("citizens without the vote or right of magistracies")
354 Rome-Samnite treaty   municipium (pl. municipia) ("communities")
351 Rome defeats Etruscans   decuriones ("landowners")
348 Rome-Carthage treaty   ordo ("Senate")
343-1 First Samnite War:
Rome+Capua vs. Samnites+Latins
  curia ("council")
340-38 Latin War; independence fails
Latin League dissolved
  triumviri coloniae deducendae ("3 men (charged with the oversight) to found a colony")
331 Rome-Gaul treaty   foedus ("treaty")
326-04 Second Samnite War
Battle of Caudine Forks
  socii Latini ("Latin allies")
312 Via Appia: Rome-->Campania   nomen Latinum ("Latin name")
298-5 Third Samnite War:
Rome vs. Samnites+Etruscans +Gauls+Sabines+Umbrians
  commercium ("the right to conduct business"), conubium ("the right to intermarry"), migratio ("the right to emigrate to Rome")
280-75 Rome vs. Pyrrhus+Sicily+Greeks   socii Italici ("Italian allies")
265 Rome controls Italian peninsula