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Republican Capua: A Social and Economic Study
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It is the aim of the following pages to study the evidence for the condition and economy of Capua in the period of the Roman Republic, and to suggest some fresh conclusions on its role in the more general evolution of Roman commerce and influence. For two centuries or more after the Second Punic War, until other more favoured and more extensive regions of the empire began to compete with Italian agriculture and industry, the cities of Campania maintained a certain degree of primacy over others in the peninsula. Among these, Capua had for long held the chief political power, and even after its defeat by the Romans in 211 B.C., retained some degree of prestige throughout antiquity. Before her defection to Hannibal, Capua might be ranked with Carthage or Corinth in wealth and power; and even at the other end of antiquity, in the fourth century A.D., Capua was the third city of Italy, next only to Rome and Aquileia, a position substantially retained in the Dark Ages and in later history.
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1 The importance of personal inspection of material in what follows makes it the more agree-able to thank those who have made this possible: Prof. A. Maiuri, Superintendent of Antiquities in Campania, for his generous permission; Dott. M. Napoli and Dott. G. O. Onorato for help in various practical ways; Prof. A. De Franciscis for valuable information; and Ing. Garofano, curator of the Museo Campano, for his kind and courteous assistance. Further, thanks are due to Mr. Russell Meiggs and Miss Joyce Reynolds for salutary criticisms; and to Mr. J. B. Ward-Perkins, to whom directly and indirectly, this study owes a great deal.
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123 A ‘Campanian’ style has been identified in the sculptures of the amphitheatre at Capua, built under Hadrian. G. Pesce, I rilievi dell'anfittatro campano.
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133 CIL X, 4013.
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136 cf. List 24; stele X, 4047.
137 CIL X, 4155, litteris vetustis.
138 Lists 6 and 7.
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161 CIL X, 4011, Forti I, no. 12, tav. v, 14. Cf. the suarius shown in Rostovtzeff, Soc. and Econ. Hist., pl. iii, 1.
162 CIL X, 4370 = Forti I, 2; tav. ii, fig. 5.
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164 CIL VI, 33887.
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174 CIL X, 4053, 4411 (= Forti I, 21; II, 9), etc.
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177 Pl. XXI, a. Cf. Rostovtzeff, Soc. and Earn. Hist., Pl. ii, 2; Gummerus, H., Klio, xii, 1912 p. 500Google Scholar; Laum, B., Germanic, ii, 1918, p. 108Google Scholar; Forti I, 20.
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180 Numerius, Decius, even Ovius still survive as praenomina; Gnaeus, though not Oscan, appear early, as in the poet, Cn. Naevius.
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185 Livy, 32, 29; 34, 42 and 45.
186 Lists 1, 3, 9; Hatzfeld, p. 69.
187 Livy, 26, 16, 6–12; 33, 10–34, 12.
188 Veil. Pat. 2, 16, 2; P-W VIIA, 638.
189 IG 2 IV, 1, 28, 1.104.
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192 CIL X, 1781 = ILS 5317. Lists 17, 23.
193 Hatzfeld, p. 80.
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196 A navigator in CIL X, 3804 (6 B.C.); a nameles sea-captain in X, 3813: ‘votum in Siculo fretu susceptum solvit.’
197 Livy, 26, 6, 13; cf. Dessau, , Hermes, xvii, pp. 153–156Google Scholar.
198 Lists 9, 23; CIL X, 4294; Hatzfeld, p. 64.
199 Plin., n.h. 7, 181Google Scholar. List 17; CIL X, 4028, and frequently elsewhere.
200 Possibly Paconius, as Munzer P-W XII, 2071, adducing ILS 5779; the name otherwise leaves little trace in the area.
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203 Cic. Cael. 23; Q. fr. 2, 8, 2. Tac. dial. 21. List 10.
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205 Hatzfeld, p. 44; Lists 2, 8, 11, 17; frequently among the stelae, CIL X, 4059, 4173–4175.
206 Conway, 102, 113, 135; list 22; CIL X, 4095, 4260 (stelae). Cf. Hatzfeld, p. 58; W. Kunkel, Herkunft und soziale Stellung, pp. 29–30.
207 Local, as the cognomen shows, CIL X, 3903; and the stele X, 4381. The words ‘deductus in coloniam’ are formulaic. Cf. Kunkel, pp. 32–33.
208 Livy 23, 2, 6, and Heurgon, chs. xii and xiii.
209 Cf. above, n. 184.
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211 P-W, s.v. ‘Magius.’
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215 Scipio Africanus, Sen., epist. 86, 11Google Scholar; Cornelia, Plut. C. Gracch. 19, 2Google Scholar, etc.
216 On Hortensius' holdings, Cic., Att. 7, 3, 9Google Scholar. On Selicius, Q., fam. 9, 16, 10Google Scholar; 1, 5, 3. On the ‘domus Sullana,’ fam. 9, 15, 5.
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220 Diod. 36, 2, 2a.
221 Plut. Crass. 8; cf. Cic., Q. Jr. 2, 3, 5Google Scholar.
222 Heurgon, pp. 285–294.
223 ‘Q. Fulvius Fulviae 1.’ in list 9, with two more in list 10. CIL X, 3968. Constructions in the temple of Diana by Ser. Fulvius Flaccus, cos. 135 B.C, CIL I2, 635. Probably therefore also a Flaccus is the ‘Q. Folvius Q.f.M.n.’ of CIL I2, 825 (Caiatia). Cp. Livy 26, 33, 4. Val. Max. 2, 7, 15. A persistent connection with the Atilii will be noted.
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225 Delia Corte, Case ed abitanti, p. 190.
226 Above, n. 217.
227 CIL X, 3854. Suet. Caes. 81.
228 All twelve names are cancelled in list 12, for reasons unknown; while the date of list 19 (74 B.C.) makes a damnatio memoriae unlikely—the names were perhaps obliterated in the later rebuildings of Diana's temple.
229 For some texts, Gabba, E., Athen., xxvii, 1954, pp. 58–59Google Scholar. For Pompeii, see H. Nissen, Pompeianische Studien; A. Sogliano, Pompei preromana.
230 The texts are listed in CIL X, p. 1142.
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236 Cf. above, n. 7.
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