The First Samnite War

The two consuls for that year, three forty-three b c by our reckoning, were aulus cornelius cassus and marcus valerius corvis. The samnites would have none of this, and scoffed at the roman envoys taking the insulting step of ordering a raid into campania right in front of the roman legates. And so the first samnite war began. He was a member of the prominent valerian family, whose famous ancestral patriarch was publius valerius publicola himself.