Ancient discovery or mystery,The Third Samnite War and the Struggle for Italian Dominance

By the dawn of the final decade of the fourth century BCE, Rome stood at a crossroads unlike any it had ever faced. The Latin League had been disassembled, the Volsci and Aequi pushed back into impertinence, and the Etruscan trouble, though moping to the north, had been kept in check through tactfulness and occasional intervention. Yet despite these palms and the instigation tipping in Rome's favour,