Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus was one of the two elected Roman consuls in 298 BC. He led the Roman army to victory against the Etruscans near Volterra. A member of the noble Roman family of Scipiones, he was the father of Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina and great-grandfather of Scipio Africanus.
The tomb of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, erected around 150 BC, contains an Old Latin elogium in Saturnian metre.
Samnite Wars
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The First, Second, and Third Samnite Wars were fought between the Roman Republic and the Samnites, who lived on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains south of Rome and north of the Lucanian tribe.The first of these wars was the result of Rome's intervention to rescue the Campanian city of Capua from a Samnite attack.
The second one was the result of Rome's intervention in the politics of the city of Naples and developed into a contest over the control of central and southern Italy.
Similarly the third war also involved a struggle for control of this part of Italy.
Samnite soldiers from a tomb frieze in Nola, 4th century BC
Ancient Roman fresco from the Esquiline Necropolis, dated c. 300–280 BC, possibly representing scenes from the Second Samnite war
A ceremonial Attic helmet typical of many found in Samnite tombs, c. 300 BC
Second Samnite War, Battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BC, the Roman army of the consuls Tiberius Veturius Calvinus symbolically pass under the yoke after their surrender