Of the latter, in the main deriving from the local aristocracies, the holders of property, power and office in the towns of Italy, the proportion was clearly much higher than has sometimes been imagined. […] Reminded of other grievances and seeing no redress from Rome after the failure and death of their champion, the conservative demagogue Livius Drusus, a friend and associate of certain local dynasts,2 the Italians took up arms. […] Loyalties were still personal, local and regional. […] Pompeius Strabo had a large following in Picenum:3 but these were only the personal adherents of a local dynast and Roman politician, or the Roman faction in a torn and discordant land. […] On the local distribution of names in ‘-enus’ see Schulze, LE, 104 ff.