Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

that the Roman authorities treated them in the same way may have been the result of
the similarity of their position in the war and their geographical vicinity. 494 One piece
of evidence, however, suggests that Capua, perhaps temporarily, formed a political
alliance with its neighbours: the cognomen of Cn. Magius Atellanus suggests that he
was citizen of Atella. 495 The fact that he could become ineddix tuticus of the
Campani would imply that Atella at the time of the Hannibalic war belonged to a
political federation with Capua, while retaining its separate identity. Presumably the
Romans made it independent in Second Punic War. To conclude, apart from Atella
and perhaps Calatia and Sabatinum, there is no good evidence for the Capuan league.
3.6. Appendix: the pagi of Roman Capua
The office of meddix tuticus/meddix was abolished at Capua in 211 BC. The
city was not destroyed, but was deprived of its senate, popular assembly and
magistrates 496 The administration of the city was remodelled by the Romans. Justice
was dispensed by four officers sent out from Rome every year, the praefecti Capuam
Cumas, who were elected by the comitia at Rome. 497 How the city was run after 211
BC does not concern us here, but the emergence of pagi in the territory of
Capua in
the Roman period recalls the pagi of Beneventum and invites us to compare briefly
the two situations.
494
Livy 26.33.12; 26.34.6; 26.34.11.
495
Livy 24.19.2.
496
Livy 26,16,7-8 and 31.29.11.
497
Festus 262 L, Linton (1999) 139.
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