Samnītes

, a people of Italy, who inhabited the country situate between Picenum, Camp an i a, Apulia, and ancient Latium. They distinguished themselves by their implacable hatred against the Romans, in the first ages of that empire, till they were at last totally extirpated, B.C. 272, after a war of 71 years. Their chief town was called Samnium, or Samnis. Livy , bk. 7 , . — Florus , bk. 1 , ch. 16 , . ; bk. 3 , ch. 18 .— Strabo , bk. 5 .— Lucan , bk. 2 .— Eutropius , bk. 2 .