Roman-Aequian wars

The Roman-Aequian wars were a series of wars during the early expansion of ancient Rome in central Italy against their eastern neighbours, the Aequi.

Livy mentions that the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, made peace with the Aequi.^[1]

They fought several battles against the Romans, among which was the battle of Mount Algidus (458 BC). Their chief center is said to have been taken by the Romans about 484 BC^[2] and again about ninety years later.^[3]

Records of fighting between Romans and Aequi become much sparser in the second half of the 5th century BC. Likely the Aequi had gradually become a more settled people and their raiding petered out as a result.^[4]

The Aequi were not finally subdued until the end of the second Samnite war,^[5] when they seem to have received a limited form of franchise.^[6]

^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1:55
^ D.S. xi.140
^ D.S. xiv.106
^ Cornell, T. J. (1995). The Beginnings of Rome- Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC). New York: Routledge. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-415-01596-7.
^ Livy, ix. 45, fx. i; Diod. xx. 101
^ Cicero, Off. i. n, 35

[1] Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1:55

[2] D.S. xi.140

[3] D.S. xiv.106

[4] Cornell, T. J. (1995). The Beginnings of Rome- Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000-264 BC). New York: Routledge. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-415-01596-7.

[5] Livy, ix. 45, fx. i; Diod. xx. 101

[6] Cicero, Off. i. n, 35

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