Across
- 2. Latin colony destroyed for revolting against Rome
- 4. Toga with purple border worn by Roman magistrates and youths
- 5. Emperor who built the massive defensive walls around Rome
- 6. Renaissance ducal family who ruled Parma and Piacenza
- 8. Battlefield of Scipio Africanus’ victory over Hannibal
- 10. Site of Hannibal’s devastating double-envelopment victory
- 12. Nymph said to have advised King Numa Pompilius
- 16. Roman state archives building overlooking the Forum
- 18. HOMINES “New men” who were first in their family to enter the Senate
- 20. Stairs in Rome where bodies of executed criminals were displayed
- 21. Obscure Umbrian tribe absorbed during Roman expansion
- 22. DI RIACE Rare surviving Greek warrior statues found off Calabria
- 23. Ancient southern Italian region later called Basilicata
- 25. Allied Italian state bound to Rome before universal citizenship
- 26. Fortified settlement common in pre-Roman Italy
- 28. Birthplace of emperors Trajan and Hadrian in Hispania
Down
- 1. Campanian mercenaries whose actions sparked the First Punic War
- 3. Annual festival commemorating the expulsion of Rome’s kings
- 5. Site of a decisive Roman naval victory over Carthage in Corsica
- 7. Secret society active in early 19th-century Italian revolts
- 9. Hill west of the Tiber crucial in several early Roman conflicts
- 11. Ten-man commission that drafted Rome’s earliest written laws
- 13. Nationalist poet who seized Fiume in 1919
- 14. Roman construction family known from detailed relief sculpture
- 15. PORSENNA Etruscan king who besieged early Republican Rome
- 17. Lombard-era sacred pillar destroyed during Christianization
- 19. SABINA Wife of Hadrian noted for a politically strained marriage
- 20. Long-serving liberal prime minister before World War I
- 24. Italian WWI shock troops later influential in Fascist symbolism
- 27. Permanent criminal courts established in the late Republic