2) Dentatus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Many stories are told of his simplicity and incorruptible honor. He refused to be bribed by Samnite ambassadors, saying that it was more glorious to conquer owners...

3) Decius Mus, Publius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Samnites and, as consul with Manlius Torquatus, commanded in the war with the Latins. Near Mt. Vesuvius he "devoted" himself to the gods and then deliberately exposed...

4) Caudine Forks. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Southern Apennines, S Italy, on the road from Capua to Benevento. There, in 321 B.C., the Samnites routed a Roman army....

5) Sentinum. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Romans (led by Publius Decius Mus) defeated the Gauls and the Samnites there. It was the most important battle in the Roman conquest of Italy....

6) Sabelli. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Italy who spoke Oscan. They were a loose group and seemed to have had little or no political unity. Oscan-speaking tribes expanded over central Italy, and by the...

7) Fabius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The family was most distinguished from the 5th cent. B.C. onward. However, little is known of the early members. Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, fl. 450 B.C., was consul...

8) Cumae. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...According to Strabo, it was the earliest Greek colony in Italy or Sicily, and it seems to have been founded c.750 B.C. by Chalcis. The area has yielded earlier non-Greek...

9) Fabricius. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Roman general and statesman, distinguished for simplicity of habit and probity in public life. He persuaded the Tarentines to abstain from war with Rome and, as consul...

10) Lucania. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Gulf of Tarentum (now Taranto) and by Apulia, on the north by Samnium and Campania, on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and on the south by Bruttium. Italic tribes...