ABSTRACT
The insurgent military organisation with Poppaedius Silo as its sole supreme commander that had been agreed upon in 89 BCE between the surviving leaders collapsed in 88 with Silos death in Apulia. It is this event which was widely treated by the ancient literary sources as the terminal point for the Social War. The death of Taliesin's and Lamponius along with many of their supporters in 82 BCE marked the end of the only significant group of Italian insurgents to have survived the Roman campaign of 88 BCE. Loeb translator Alfred Schlesinger assumed that this statement was a belated reference to the enfranchisement legislation of 89 BCE. In the years which followed, however, there are occasional indications that former supporters of the insurgency may have had an involvement in ongoing conflicts. The result of archaeological work in recent decades has been to present us with a far more sophisticated picture of urban development in regions which supported the insurgency.
