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 | | If this be referred, not to its capture in the second Punic War (211 BC) but to its submission to Rome in, 338 BC, we get about 600 BC as the date of its foundation, a period at which the Etruscan power was at its highest, and which may perhaps, therefore, be accepted. |
 | | After a long siege it was taken by the Romans in 211 B C and severely punished; its magistrates and communal organization were abolished, the inhabitants losing their civic rights, and its territory became Roman state domain. |
 | | Parts of it were sold in 205 and 199 BC, another part was divided among the citizens of the new colonies of Volturnum and Liternum established near the coast in 194 BC, but the greater portion of it was reserved to be let by the state. |
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