HERNICI, an ancient people of Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Fucine lake and the Trerus, bounded by the Volsci on the south, and by the Aequi and the Marsi on the north. In 486 B.C. they were still strong enough to conclude an equal treaty with the Latins (Dion. Hal. viii. 64 and 68). They broke away from Rome in 362 (Livy. vii. 6 ff.) and in 3o6 (Livy iv. 42), when their chief town Anagnia (q.v.) was taken and reduced to a praefecture, but Ferentinum, Aletrium and Verulae were allowed to remain free municipia. By 225 B.C. their terri tory was not distinguished from Latium generally, and it seems probable that they had then received the full Roman citizenship. oldest Latin inscriptions of the district (from Ferentinum, C.I.L. x. 5837-40) are earlier than the Social War, and present no local characteristic.