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Roman Timeline of the 3rd Century BC (1274 words) |
 | 298 BC An alliance is formed with the Picentes, and Gauls raid Roman territory. |
| 239 BC Birth of the writer Quintus Ennius, born at the town of Rudiae in Calabria. |
| 212 BC The introduction of a new coinage to Rome, the denarius. |
| Glossary (832 words) |
| The Via Valeria was a service road for building the first aqueducts: the Anio Vetus (272-270 BC), flowing directly from the river between Vicovaro and S. Cosimato; the Aqua Marcia (144-140 BC), starting higher up the mountainside, on the Via Sublacense near Marano. |
| In the fourth through third centuries BC, the population of the Anio valley was "paganic-vicanic" (i.e., settlements were in small pagi and vici). |
| The arrival of Horace in the last decades of the first century BC represented a shift in the economy of the valley from small farms to a large estate that must have dominated the valley. |
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