Rome fought a series of four wars with them, suffering disastrous defeats at their hands at the Caudine Forks and Lautulae, before winning decisive victory at Sentinum through the heroic self-sacrifice of Publius Decius Mus.  
Rome fought a series of four wars with them, suffering disastrous defeats at their hands at the Caudine Forks and Lautulae, before winning decisive victory at Sentinum through the heroic self-sacrifice of Publius Decius Mus.  FTP, name this people of the Appenine foothills who spoke an Oscan dialect related to Latin and whose resistance was the last real obstacle to the Roman mastery of mainland Italy.
Rome fought a series of four wars with them, suffering disastrous defeats at their hands at the Caudine Forks and Lautulae, before winning decisive victory at Sentinum through the heroic self-sacrifice of Publius Decius Mus.  
Samnites