Sulla has by 82 BCE conducted an…

Sulla has by 82 BCE conducted an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Samnites, this most stubborn and persistent of Rome's adversaries, and forced the remnant to disperse.

So great is the destruction brought upon them that it is recorded that "the towns of Samnium have become villages, and most have vanished altogether.” (Strabo, Geography, Book V, Section 4.11.)