Consuls and half of the Senate be Latins; but it was rejected. A war
followed, in the third year of which was fought the battle of
Trigánum, near Mount Vesuvius. The Romans, with their Samnite allies,
were victorious through the efforts of the Consul, TITUS MANLIUS
TORQUÁTUS, one of the illustrious names of this still doubtful period.
The remainder of the operations was rather a series of expeditions
against individual cities than a general war.

In 338 all the Latins laid down their arms, and the war closed. The
Latin confederacy was at an end. Rome now was mistress. Four of the
Latin cities, TIBUR, PRAENESTE, CORA, and LAURENTUM, were left
independent, but all the rest of the towns were annexed to Rome. Their
territory became part of the _Ager Románus_, and the inhabitants
Roman plebeians.

Besides acquiring Latium, Rome also annexed, as _municipia_,
three more towns, Fundi, Formiae, and Velítrae, a Volscian town.

LATIUM was now made to include all the country from the Tiber to the
Volturnus.

Rome about this time established several MARITIME (Roman) COLONIES,
which were similar to her MILITARY (Latin) COLONIES, except that the
colonists retained all their rights as Roman citizens, whereas the
military colonists relinquished these rights and became Latins. The
first of these colonies was ANTIUM (338); afterwards were established
TARRACÍNA (329), MINTURNAE, and SINUESSA (296). Others were afterwards
founded.

Later, when Antium was changed into a military colony, its navy was