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AREZZO.
[chap. i.v.
throw on the shores of the Thrasymene.4 The city did
not remain faithful during the Punic "War, but made
several efforts to throw off the yoke, and the Romans were
compelled to make hostages of the sons of the senators,
and put new keys on the city-gates.5 Yet towards the
close of the war, Arretium furnished her quota of supplies
—corn, weapons, and other munitions of war—for Scipio's
fleet.6 In the civil contests of Sylla and Marius, she
sided with the latter, and would have suffered from the
victor the loss of her lands and citizenship, but for the
eloquence of Cicero, who pleaded her cause.7 Many of
the colonists afterwards espoused the cause of Catiline.8
In the war between Csesar and Pompey, Arretium was
one of the first places seized by the former.9 Her fertile
lands were three times partitioned among the soldiers of
the Republic, and the colonies established were distin-
guished by the names of Arretium Vetus, Fidens, and
Julium.1 The former was still one of the chief cities of
4 Liv. XXII. 2, 3 ; Polyb. III. 77,
80 ; CScero (de Divin. I. 35) tells us
that the Consul and his horse here fell
suddenly to the ground before a statue
of Jupiter Stator, yet he neglected the
omen; and when he consulted the
auspices, though the holy chickens
would not feed propitiously, he refused
to regard the warning, and marched
out to his own destruction.
5 Liv. XXVII. 21, 22, 24.
6 Liv. XXVIII. 45.—Arretini triginta
millia scutorum, galeas totidem, pila,
gsesa, hastas longas, millium quinqua-
ginta summam pari cujusque generis
numero expleturos, secures, rutra,
falces, alveolos, molas, quantum in
quadraginta longas naves opus esset,
tritici centum et viginti millia modium,
et in viaticum decurionibus remiffibus-
que collaturos.
7 Cicero, pro Csecina, 33 ; ad Attic.
I. 19.
8 Cicero, pro Murena, 24.
9 Cicero, ad Divers. XVI. 12 ; Ciesar,
Bell. Civ. I. 11.
i Pirn. III. 8. Repetti (I. p. 113)
refers the colony of Arretium Fidens to
Sylla; yet Cicero (ad Attic. I. 19)
expressly states that though Sylla had
confiscated the lands of the Arretini,
he was prevented by himself from
dividing them among his legions. The
Arretium Julium was established under
the Triumvirate, as Frontinus (de
Coloniis) assures us. Arretium is also
mentioned as a colony by Ptolemy (p.
72, ed. Bert.), and as a municipmm by
Isidor (Orig. XX. 4) and by inscriptions.
Dempster, II. p. 311. Cluver (II.
p. 572) thinks it must have been a
nvamidjniwm of the third kind described
AREZZO.
[chap. i.v.
throw on the shores of the Thrasymene.4 The city did
not remain faithful during the Punic "War, but made
several efforts to throw off the yoke, and the Romans were
compelled to make hostages of the sons of the senators,
and put new keys on the city-gates.5 Yet towards the
close of the war, Arretium furnished her quota of supplies
—corn, weapons, and other munitions of war—for Scipio's
fleet.6 In the civil contests of Sylla and Marius, she
sided with the latter, and would have suffered from the
victor the loss of her lands and citizenship, but for the
eloquence of Cicero, who pleaded her cause.7 Many of
the colonists afterwards espoused the cause of Catiline.8
In the war between Csesar and Pompey, Arretium was
one of the first places seized by the former.9 Her fertile
lands were three times partitioned among the soldiers of
the Republic, and the colonies established were distin-
guished by the names of Arretium Vetus, Fidens, and
Julium.1 The former was still one of the chief cities of
4 Liv. XXII. 2, 3 ; Polyb. III. 77,
80 ; CScero (de Divin. I. 35) tells us
that the Consul and his horse here fell
suddenly to the ground before a statue
of Jupiter Stator, yet he neglected the
omen; and when he consulted the
auspices, though the holy chickens
would not feed propitiously, he refused
to regard the warning, and marched
out to his own destruction.
5 Liv. XXVII. 21, 22, 24.
6 Liv. XXVIII. 45.—Arretini triginta
millia scutorum, galeas totidem, pila,
gsesa, hastas longas, millium quinqua-
ginta summam pari cujusque generis
numero expleturos, secures, rutra,
falces, alveolos, molas, quantum in
quadraginta longas naves opus esset,
tritici centum et viginti millia modium,
et in viaticum decurionibus remiffibus-
que collaturos.
7 Cicero, pro Csecina, 33 ; ad Attic.
I. 19.
8 Cicero, pro Murena, 24.
9 Cicero, ad Divers. XVI. 12 ; Ciesar,
Bell. Civ. I. 11.
i Pirn. III. 8. Repetti (I. p. 113)
refers the colony of Arretium Fidens to
Sylla; yet Cicero (ad Attic. I. 19)
expressly states that though Sylla had
confiscated the lands of the Arretini,
he was prevented by himself from
dividing them among his legions. The
Arretium Julium was established under
the Triumvirate, as Frontinus (de
Coloniis) assures us. Arretium is also
mentioned as a colony by Ptolemy (p.
72, ed. Bert.), and as a municipmm by
Isidor (Orig. XX. 4) and by inscriptions.
Dempster, II. p. 311. Cluver (II.
p. 572) thinks it must have been a
nvamidjniwm of the third kind described