We must beware, therefore, of pursuing too far into detail the unmistakable general connection between the events in the west and those in the east of Italy.
2.

These were not the inhabitants of Satricum near Antium (II.

V.
League with The Hernici), but those of another Volscian town constituted at that time as a Roman burgess-community without right of voting, near Arpinum.
3.

That a formal armistice for two years subsisted between the Romans and Samnites in 436-437 is more than improbable.
4.

The operations in the campaign of 537, and still more plainly the formation of the highway from Arretium to Bononia in 567, show that the road from Rome to Arretium had already been rendered serviceable before that time.