The league of Rome with the Latins and that with the Hernicans are parted by an interval of seven years, and by events which our history must not pass over: but it would shew a slavish adherence to the order of time to let the internal connexion between the two subjects be broken by this separation. The same Sp. Cassius concluded both the treaties as consul, and the tenour of both was precisely the same: the alliance was common to the three states, and they were all placed on an equality; so that when their forces took the field conjointly, a third of the spoil and of the conquered territory fell to the lot of each, and each took an equal share in the colonies they sent forth. Now for the subsistence of this equality it was necessary there should be no marked disproportion between the allies in power, even if they were not exactly balanced; and the Hernicans must have occupied a compass far wider than their later history assigns to them. They, like the Latins, were overpowered by the Volscians and Æquians, who conquered a part of their towns: some of these, as was the case with Ferentinum, were recovered; others perhaps were destroyed; others, when peace was concluded and the possessions of the parties secured by treaties, may have remained in the hands of the Volscians.