Aequi

The Aequi kept attacking, whether with allies or alone, Rome and its surroundings.

A truce was then arranged with the Aequi.

The commanders of the Aequi begged Cincinnatus not to slaughter them all.

In the same year, the Aequi attacked the allied city of Tusculum and defeated his colleague, Minucius.

According to Livy and Plutarch, the Aequi gathered their army at Bolae.

In 459 B.C. the Aequi attacked Tusculum and captured its citadel.

Camillus proceeded then, capturing Bola (Aequi's capital) and subjecting Volsci.

He defeated the Aequi and the Volsci, and when the senate refused him a triumph, the soldiers conferred that honour on him.

In particular, the Aequi moved from the Apennine Mountains towards Tusculum (Frascati).

Records of fighting between Romans and Aequi become much sparser in the second half of the 5th century BC.

After a lengthy series of struggles, this supremacy became fixed in 393, when the Romans finally subdued the Volsci and Aequi.

Bolae was a Latin town, but it was also the scene of much fighting between Romans and Aequi, and it changed hands several times.

Iunius swiftly put down an insurrection that broke out when Alba was colonized, and the Aequi ceased to exist as a separate people at this time.

The Aequi attacked Cincinnatus, but they were soon obliged to turn and face the Romans of Minucius, who had left their camp to reach their companions.

Proculus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus marched against Aequi and opposed the agrarian law of his colleague Vecellinus.

Before Cincinnatus was appointed dictator in 458 BCE, Rome was in the midst of a battle with the Aequi and needed someone to take control.

In this era, the predominant "warfare" consisted of chronic small-scale raiding and cattle-rustling against other clans and, later, neighbouring hill-tribes such as the Sabini and Aequi.

The Latins faced repeated incursions by the Hernici, Aequi and Volsci, whose territories surrounded Latium Vetus on its eastern and southern sides.

During that time, Volsci and Aequi invaded the Roman territory, some Latin nations revolted, and the Etruscans besieged Sutrium, which was a Roman ally.

The Aequi surrounded the Roman camp, and only the arrival of another Roman army, led by dictator Cincinnatus, turned the Battle of Mons Algidus from a defeat into victory.

The motive factor behind the alliance was the threat posed to the cities of Old Latium by the surrounding Italic hill-tribes, notably the Volsci and Aequi, whose incursions intensified in this period.

Also incorporated sine suffragio were several tribes on the fringes of Latium Vetus which had until that time been longtime enemies of Rome: the Aurunci, Volsci, Sabini and Aequi.

In 304 Rome also won crushing victories against the Hernici and Aequi and in the following years concluding treaties with the tribes of the Paeligni, Marrucini, Frentani and Vestini.

The Romans had already defeated the Aequi in the Battle of Mons Algidus, so that the Battle of Corbione definitely marked the dominion of the Romans over this tribe.

News arrived from the Hernici that a force of Aequi and Volsci was advancing toward their territory, but the Romans were unable to field an army to assist their allies, or even defend their own territory.