Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius (Livy)

Livy. History of Rome, Volumes 1-2. Roberts, Canon, Rev, translator. London, New York: J. M. Dent and Sons; E. P. Dutton and Co., 1912.

During this year the Roman garrison at Luceria was treacherously betrayed, and the Samnites became masters of the place.

The traitors did not go long unpunished. A Roman army was not far away, and the city, which lay in a plain, was taken at the first assault.