Hernici

The Hernici were an Italic tribe of ancient Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Fucine Lake and the Sacco River (Trerus), bounded by the Volsci on the south, and by the Aequi and the Marsi on the north.

[citation needed] In 495 BC Livy records that they entered into a treaty with the Volsci against ancient Rome.

[8] They broke away from Rome in 362[9] and in 306,[10] when their chief town Anagnia was taken and reduced to a praefectura, but Ferentinum, Aletrium and Verulae were rewarded for their fidelity by being allowed to remain free municipia, a position which at that date they preferred to the civitas.

[11] The name of the Hernici, like that of the Volsci, is missing from the list of Italian peoples whom Polybius[12] describes as able to furnish troops in 225 BC.

The oldest Latin inscriptions of the district (from Ferentinum[13]) are earlier than the Social War, and present no local characteristic.