The punishment inflicted upon Capua was severe.

Seventy of her Senators were killed, three hundred of her chief citizens imprisoned, and the whole people sold as slaves.

The city and its territory were declared to be Roman territory, and the place was afterwards repeopled by Roman occupants.
Such was the fate of this famous city.

Founded in as early times as Rome itself, it became the most flourishing city of Magna Graecia, renowned for its luxury and refinement, and as the home of all the highest arts and culture.
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HIERO II., tyrant of Syracuse, died in 216.

During his long reign of more than fifty years he had been the stanch friend and ally of Rome in her struggles with Carthage.