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HERNICI , an See also:

ancient See also:people of See also:Italy, whose territory was in See also:Latium between the Fucine See also:Lake and the Trerus, bounded by the Volscian on the S., and by the Aequian and the Marsian on the N. They See also:long maintained their See also:independence, and in 486 B.C. were still strong enough to conclude an equal treaty with the Latins (See also:Dion. See also:Hal. viii. 64 and 68). They See also:broke away from See also:Rome in 362 (See also:Livy vii. 6 ff.) and in 306 (Livy ix. 42), when their See also:chief See also:town See also:Anagnia (q.v.) was taken and reduced to a praefecture, but Ferentinum, See also:Aletrium and Verulae were rewarded for their fidelity by being allowed to remain See also:free municipia, a position which at that date they preferred to the civitas. The name of the Hernici, like that of the See also:Volsci, is missing from the See also:list of See also:Italian peoples whom See also:Polybius (ii. 24) describes as able to furnish troops in 225 B.C.; by that date, therefore, their territory cannot have been distinguished from Latium generally, and it seems probable (Beloch, Ital. Bund, p. 123) that they had then received the full See also:Roman citizenship. The See also:oldest Latin See also:inscriptions of the See also:district (from Ferentinum, C.I.L. x.

5837-5840) are earlier than the Social See also:

War, and See also:present no See also:local characteristic. For further details of their See also:history see C.I.L. x. 572. There is no See also:evidence to show that the Hernici ever spoke a really different See also:dialect from the Latins; but one or two glosses indicate that they had certain peculiarities of vocabulary, such as might be expected among folk who clung to their local customs. Their name, however, with its Co-termination, classes them along with the Co-tribes, like the Volsci, who would seem to have been earlier inhabitants of the See also:west See also:coast of Italy, rather than with the tribes whose names were formed with the No-suffix. On this question see Volsci and See also:SABINI. See See also:Conway's See also:Italic Dialects (Camb. Univ. See also:Press, 1897), p. 306 if., where the glosses and the local and See also:personal names of the district will be found. (R. S.

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