A Sabellic is a speaker of the Sabellian language, once spoken in Umbria, Italy.
Rome acquired control over Italy over a period of about 220 years. Most of Italy was not conquered. The largest part Italy was controlled through alliances, not conquest. Rome's first expansion was into the mountains of central and southern Italy as a result of the Three Samnite Wars against the Samnites of southern Italy (343 BC-341 BC, 326 BC 304 BC and 298 BC- 290 BC.) Rome made alliances with the peoples of these areas and only annexed the Sabines. At the end second of these wars Rome defeated the Aequi a small people in central Italy which had been an old foe of Rome. Following this, five small Sabellic peoples in central Italy (the Marsi, Maruccini, Paeligni and Vestini and Frentani), who had been allies of the Samnites, allied with Rome in 304 BC. In the Third Samnite War, Rome defeated an alliance between of Samnites, Umbrians and Senone Gauls of central Italy and a group of Etruscan cities-states in the Battle of Sentinium in 295 BC. At the end of the war the Samnites, Umbrians and Senone Gauls were forced to form alliances with Rome. The Lucanians, who lived to the south of the Samnites, decided to ally with Rome. Rome left the Etruscans alone. After having defeated them several times before and weakened them, they were no longer a threat. Etruscan civilisation decayed and they were absorbed through their becoming romanised. In 290 BC Rome also fought the nearby Sabines and won after a tough fight. She gave large areas Sabine land to Roman settlers. In 268 BC the Sabines were given Roman citizenship. The Romans conquered Gallia Cisalpina, a large area on northern Italy inhabited two Gallic peoples (the, Insubres and Boii) in 222 BC following a Gallic invasion into Etruria and attempted march on Rome. During this period, the Centomani Gauls and Veneti of north eastern Italy allied with Rome. The Taurini of north-western Italy where attacked by Hannibal during his invasion of Italy in the Second Punic War (218 BC-201 BC). After this war, they allied with Rome. The alliances made with Rome during the initial expansion into the mountains of central and southern Italy involved protection by Rome and the allies paying a tribute to Rome and providing her with soldiers at their own expense. These soldiers fought in auxiliary units which supported the Roman legions. The system worked because the Romans supported the ruling elites of the allied peoples and the allies shared the booty of war, which could be very substantial. Rome also founded colonies (settlements) in strategic areas to strengthen their control by establishing a presence there. The colonist provided Rome with intelligence and contributed to the Romanisation of the Italic peoples. The Romans also founded colonies in conquered Gallia Cisalpina.
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Rome's First Period of Expansion began in 509 B.C.E. when the Romans drove the last Etruscan king out of power. The first period of large scale expansion was the first phase of Rome's conquest of Italy in the interwar years between the 2nd ad 3rd Samnite Wars (304-298 BC) and the 3rd of these wars (298-290 BC). In the former Rome forced the Sabellic peoples of central Italy into alliances. By the end of the latter, Rome had taken control of and had alliances in the whole of central Italy, except from Etruria, and the present day regions Campania and Lucania in the south. There was expansion, though far more limited than this, under the kingdom. This was in old Latium, the area around Rome. At the beginning of the republic (which begun in 509 BC) Rome had to defend herself against the attacks from Sabines, Aequi, and Volsci. It was not until the 380s BC that they became expansionist again by taking the Pomptine region, an area in the south of today's Lazio. There was expansion from the Pomptine to Naples from the first to the second Samnite wars (343--304 BC).
AnswerLatin was the language spoken by the Romans in Italy, the people who created the Roman Empire. The Latin language was not deliberately created. It was the language spoken on the streets of Rome, a lot more like Italian or Spanish than the Latin that we read in books today. Street Latin was a kind of slang, just as we have slang speech in modern languages, in modern times, different from the written language. However, Roman citizens, authors, writers, playwrights, and poets, like Cicero and Vergil, did create the more complicated forms that we see in written Latin: they added constructions, conjugations, and declensions to deal with more complicated ways of dealing with information in time and space. The authors needed to add all those strange tenses with the strange-sounding names, to convey ideas more complicated than the street lingo could handle.----------------------------------Agree with part of the above. Writers described, categorized, and gave names to things like cases of nouns, and moods and tenses and moods of verbs. Unwritten languages can be quite complicated, and in some cases certain aspects of language get simpler as time goes on. It is believed that Indo-European had eight cases for nouns; Latin has five, German four. In English we have lost cases of nouns completely and rely more on word order and prepositions. Subject, object, and possessive could be thought of as three cases of pronouns.