<p rend="Plain Text">Capua and Petelia</p>
<p rend="Plain Text">Hannibal's victory at <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cannae&groupId=430&placeId=797">Cannae</a> (iii. 107–17) led to widespread revolts in <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Italy&groupId=656&placeId=1199">Italy</a>. He was joined by Arpi in Apulia (iii. 118. 3), Salapia (Livy, xxiv. 20. 15), Aecae (Livy, xxiv. 20. 5), Herdonea (Livy, xxiv. 20. 8, xxv. 21. 1), and Compsa (Livy, xxiii. 1. 1). The Samnite tribes, the <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Hirpini&groupId=634&placeId=1165">Hirpini</a> and Caudini, went over; and, on Mago's arrival with a small force, almost all Lucania (Livy, xxiii. 11. 11; but cf. Livy, xxv. 16. 5), and among the Bruttii all the towns but Petelia (Livy, xxiii. 11. 7, 20. 4) and Consentia (Livy, xxiii. 30. 5). See in general Livy, xxii. 61. 11: 'defecere autem ad Poenos hi populi: Atellani, Calatini, <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Hirpini&groupId=634&placeId=1165">Hirpini</a>, Apulorum pars, Samnites praeter Pentros, Bruttii omnes, Lucani, praeter hos Vzentini, et Graecorum omnis fere ora, Tarentini, Metapontini, Crotonienses Locrique et Cisalpini omnes Galli'. This list omits the Campanians and antedates some other defections; on the revolt of Capua see Livy, xxiii. 2 ff.; Hallward, CAH, viii. 55–6; De Sanctis, iii. 2. 214–18. Since <a class="linkToPlace" target="_blank" href="/place?placename=Cannae&groupId=430&placeId=797">Cannae</a> was probably fought in August 216 (iii. 107–17 n. (b)), the defections fall strictly within Ol. 141, 1 (216/15), which justifies P. in describing them in vii. His source cannot be established with certainty, but may well be Fabius (cf. Klotz, Livius, 154).</p>
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