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 | The origin of the rest of the roads is no doubt to be connected with the gradual establishment of the Latin league. |
| league which followed upon the defeat of the united forces of the Samnites and of those Latin and Volscian cities which had revolted against Rome, two new tribes, Maecia and Scaptia,1 were created in 332 B.C. in connection with the distribution of the newly acquired lands (Mommsen, History, i. |
| There is little doubt that the formation of the tn bus Quirina (deriving its name possibly from the town of Cures) and the tnibus Velina (from the river Velinus, which forms the well-known waterfalls near Terni) is to be connected with the construction of the latter high road, though its date is not certainly known. |
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