28 POMPEIANA.

In all the minute detail of these ope-
rations, as related by Livy, mention is not
made of either of the overwhelmed cities;
although the possession of no town ap-
pears to have been considered sufficiently
unimportant to remain undisputed. Han-
nibal marches from Nola to Naples, re-
traces his steps, and proceeds to the at-
tack of Nuceria, but the interposition of
Vesuvius seems to have afforded effectual
security to this part of the coast.

The Social or Marsic war1 proved
equally calamitous to the conquered.
Sylla leading the legions of Home, soon
put an end to the ephemeral success of
this league. Stabia, though forced into
the contest, was submitted to the un-
bridled licence of a military mob. Villas

Began B. C. 91, by the Marsi, Peligni, Vestini, Ma-
rucini, and joined by the Picentes, Ferentani, Hirpini, Pom-
peiani, Venusini, Apuli, Lucani, and Samnites : their forces
amounted to a hundred thousand. AppiaN.

Nee Annibalis nee Pyrrhi fuit tanta vastatio.

Flohus.