Paeligni

Paeligni, ancient people of central Italy, whose territory lay inland on the eastward slopes of the Apennines. Though akin to the Samnites, they formed a separate league with their neighbours the Marsi, Marrucini, and Vestini. This league appears to have broken up after the Second Samnite War (304 bc), when each tribe came into an alliance with the Romans that lasted until the Social War (90–88 bc). During the Social War the capital of the...