As I already anticipated, our main source of information about the war between Rome and Neapolis is an “enemy” writer: Titus Livius (Livy). In this post I am commenting those excerpts where the Roman author tells how the Bellum Neapolitanum started.
Let us begin with the second part of “Ab Urbe Condita”, VIII-22:
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Sunday, 17 January 2021
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