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date from the late third to early first century BC, while tile stamps, whose importance has increased since the finds at the rural sanctuary of Campochiaro, were mainly found in the area of Bovianum. In Campania, we have numerous inscriptions of a funerary type at Capua from the fourth to third centuries BC and dedicatory inscriptions at Pompeii mainly dating from the second century BC. A handful of dedications by magistrates has also been found at Herculaneum, Cumae, Nola and Abella, also from the second century BC. 1.2. History of scholarship In this section, I summarize the contributions of historians and linguists to the study of public institutions in pre-Roman Southern Italy and I give an overview of how our understanding of the Italic world and its political institutions has changed since the late nineteeth century. In doing so, I focus on two sets of questions. First, what is the literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence for the nature of public institutions of Samnite states, and can it tell us anything about the office of the meddix/meddix tuticus? Second, how have historians contextualised this office or offices within the broader environment of constitutions and state formation? Reference will be made to the study of the Italic world in general in order to understand the position and contribution of several seminal studies. Nineteenth-century historiography focused on the city of Rome and identified the history of the peninsula with that of Rome. The Italic world was not credited with its own political institutions but was treated as land to be `civilised'. Roman expansion was perceived as a sequence of military successes leading to the 12
unification of Italy and the growth of a world power. Mommsen's Römische Geschichte, the product of German idealist historicism, was one of the most influential works of the time, although its flaws and controversial claims were noted at an early date. ' The world to be conquered by the Roman army was divided into states with fixed borders and distinct ethnic origins, that is the territorial states of the Umbrians, Vestini, Frentani, Paeligni, Marsi, Samnites, Campani, Lucani and so on. The title meddix is characteristic of the Oscan and Umbrian languages. Inscriptions attesting this office have been found over a large area: written in Oscan it occurs in Campania and in the central Apennines. Attestations from Lucania, Bruttium and Sicily, and also on a helmet of unknown origin are written in the Greek alphabet. The territories of the Volsci, Aequicoli and Marsi have yielded evidence in Latin, while from Assisi we have evidence in Umbrian. In Oscan, the word appears in the nominative singular as meddis or meddfss, sometimes abbreviated as m, med, medd, and md in Campania. Meddis occurs several times on the Tabula Bantina in Lucania, inedix at Velletri in the territory of the Volsci, medis at Antinum and meddiss at Collemaggiore in the territory of the Aequicoli, all in the Latin alphabet. At Assisi it appears in Umbrian as mestica. In Greek script the title appears in Lucania as µebtxtat (locative singular) and in Sicily as pEböEtý (nominative plural). Scholars normally use the Latinised version meddix. The word meddiss is a compound of two Italic words, *med- or *med-es- 'right', and *dik- 'to say, to declare' and thus corresponds to the Latin word 'iudex'. 2 The title is more often than not qualified by an adjective. Sometimes the adjective represents the name of a location. Other adjectives include aticus and degetasius at Corfinium and Nola 1 On how contemporary views and events influenced Mommsen's works as ancient historian, see Mouritsen (1998) 23-37. 2 Untermann (2000) 459. 13
Page 1 and 2: Leadership among the Samnites and r
Page 3 and 4: Acknowledgements I am most thankful
Page 5 and 6: 2.4. Administrative institutions ..
Page 7 and 8: 6.6.1. Bronze coins with the legend
Page 9 and 10: Abbreviations Bu = Buck, C. D., A G
Page 11: Chapter 2 looks at what the account
Page 15 and 16: was qualified by the place-name of
Page 17 and 18: dictatorship of the Latin states. 1
Page 19 and 20: narrowed the meaning of touta down
Page 21 and 22: tuticus was consequently an urban o
Page 23 and 24: 2.1. Introduction Chapter 2. Highla
Page 25 and 26: century BC and the Social War. 53 F
Page 27 and 28: esurrected by the Pentri in second
Page 29 and 30: their country, the Romans decided t
Page 31 and 32: princeps. 77 The titles imperator a
Page 33 and 34: that he had captured Taurasia, Cisa
Page 35 and 36: that the Romans had rebuilt the des
Page 37 and 38: Beneventum, in the upper valleys of
Page 39 and 40: the name of the place to Italia. He
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Page 43 and 44: southernmost part of the fourth reg
Page 45 and 46: We must, however, ask whether the a
Page 47 and 48: dated to the end of the fourth or b
Page 49 and 50: heartland as being heavily fortifie
Page 51 and 52: Remains of buildings and associated
Page 53 and 54: were scattered over the area of the
Page 55 and 56: the hill fort of Monte Pallano in t
Page 57 and 58: the region. 183 Livy uses the term
Page 59 and 60: and the Sangro valley. Aufidena was
Page 61 and 62: Samnium, partly because the visible
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Another surge in building activity
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site was abandoned after the war. O
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It is generally accepted that the w
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Vestini and Paeligni. Some of the p
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i still left with the question of w
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three stamps in which the name of t
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second Stabidinus is plausibly the
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the first half of the second centur
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pak(is). staiis. 1(üvkieis). m(edd
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.ý -ý: ordered or approved by a c
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pürtam. liis[eis az2 pü]d safinim
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the Samnites during the Samnite and
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Marcus Lamponius (App., B. C. 1.42.
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Table 4: The Staii as meddices tuti
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produced a magister for the Samnite
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2.6. Conclusions Literary accounts
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fort of Roccagloriosa and some hill
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Although they suggest that the medd
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Capua is preserved in Stephanus Byz
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Samnites. 347 Dionysius's passage,
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Campanian issues as well, thus sugg
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BC, after the final defeat of the L
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supervise the introduction of new r
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settled in 334 BC. 379 But the Fale
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Litemum and Puteoli in 194 BC; 392
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Bantina, an Oscan constitution, is
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undermined, however, by several fac
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We have twenty-six iüvilas inscrip
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same structure: the name or names o
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[These three are the iüvilas] of P
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inscriptions ST Cp 27,29, and 30, a
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The inscription ST Cp 32 suggests t
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ekluva[tiium] 2diuvia. [is] 3damu[s
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ST Cp 19, Ve 93, Co 112, FdB 1, He
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Sulpicius Rufus to be built at publ
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Triphius Virrius, were probably put
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Etruscan gens Ane. 486 Heurgon, cit
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were established in the city, but t
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The main source of information for
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4.1. Introduction Chapter 4. Cumae
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It is difficult to know where exact
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earlier Greek agora, the later foru
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still contained Greek elements. 533
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Although Sgobbo's reading of the wo
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own magistrates, but was represente
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Modern interpretations of the expre
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Rix's argument is unconvincing. Fir
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Cumae and Pompeii. These cities, al
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the name of the town. 566 Justin, w
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Rome and Naples. 577 One may doubt,
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Nola, Naples and Cumae in 216 BC 58
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with the late period of the Hyrina
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5.4.1. Magistrates at Nola and Abel
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Romans held censuses every five yea
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Pacius Calavius son of Pacius m. d.
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written out in full. Rather, I thin
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amnüd. puz. idik. sakara[klüm] in
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Side B Lines 23-26: But the Nolans.
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name and his office (all dative sin
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a number of scholars, I do not beli
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Out of the three gens names of the
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towns. Literary sources mention dis
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1. He argued that the expression r6
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investigated whether this ethnic re
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mentioned by Thucydides, who says t
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the wars ended with the town being
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and from the Labican' 684 Beloch no
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fighting on several fronts, in Apul
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admission, so they made their way t
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loose federation of settlements he
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Pompeianus and guaestor Pompeianus.
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late third, early ST Po 1 Caratelli
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v(iibis). püpidiis. v(iibieis). me
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possibility is that they are the ow
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fragmentary inscriptions, Ve 9 and
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supply uninterrupted and to give ga
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appears on the altar found in templ
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6.3.5. Other institutions It is als
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1. ST Po 34, Ve 23, Co 60, Bu 14, P
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urubla[nu. ant. tiu]rri. 7mefira. f
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meaning `goings'. He supposed that
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the Latin noun fama, with the meani
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4. ST Po 43, Ve 30b, Co 71, Zvetaie
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since the programmata were not noti
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quinquennalis or quaestor. Mommsen
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makes sense only if they were votin
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of the town. Maraeus Atranus son of
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Numerous nomina gentilicia of magis
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6.5. Meddices of Minerva A unique i
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of Mefitis and Privati of Stabiae,
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Most of the coins with the legend a
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6.6.2. Silver and bronze coins from
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story, recorded in local traditions
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supposed confederation the members
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structures. 848 The known instituti
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they were probably filled by electi
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title. My investigation has led to
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emarkably wider than in the Greek w
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In chapters three to six, I have su
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Antonini, R., `Campani', Studi Etru
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Bonghi Jovino, M., La necopoliprero
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Campanile, E., `Note sulla defixio
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Cebeillac-Gervasoni M., 'Italia: Re
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Crawford, M. H., Coinage and money
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De Benedittis, G., 'Sannio (CB): pi
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Di Niro, A., `Cercemaggiore-Gildone
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Gabba, E., L'Italia romana (Como, 1
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Guzzo, P. G. 'L'identitä contradit
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Joseph, B. D., 'Oscan slaagi-', Glo
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Larsen, J. A. 0, Greek Federal Stat
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Lloyd, J. A. Rathbone, D. W. `A Cla
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Mau, A., `Die oskischen Wegweiserin
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Onorato, G. 0., `Pompei municipium
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italica, Atli del convegno della So
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Salerno', Nuceria Alfaterna e il su
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Sgobbo, I., `Gli Etruschi in Pompei
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Thomsen, R., The Italic Regions fro
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Maps 298
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