The accounts记述 · the ancient witnesses
Greek historians · 希腊史家
Appian — Roman History （阿庇安·罗马史）witness · 见证
Diodorus Siculus — Library of History （狄奥多罗斯·历史丛书）witness · 见证
Roman historians · 罗马史家
Livy — Ab Urbe Condita （李维·建城以来史）primary source · 源典78 loci · well-attested
§ 7.29–42, 8.1–2 · 69/78 in the cited books
'The history will now be occupied with wars greater than any previously recorded ... For it was in this year (343 BCE) that hostilities commenced with the Samnites, a people strong in material resources and military power' (7.29.1)「此后所叙之战，规模之大前所未有……盖即本年（前343年）与萨莫奈人启衅，其族物力兵威皆盛」（7.29.1）
Provenance: “primary source” = curated canonical witness (editorial); “dated witness” = derived from the ToposText date index by year-span, with the matched loci count. Sparse counts may include incidental mentions.出处：「源典」为校订之正典见证（编辑判断）；「系年见证」由 ToposText 系年索引按年代跨度推得，附匹配条目数；稀少者或含偶涉。
On the timeline时间轴上
→ See this and all 18 historians on the chronology spine于编年脊柱上一览本事件与全部 18 位史家