 Julius Caesar as consul in 59 BC succeeded in carrying out the establishment of a Roman colony under the name Julia Felix in connection with his agrarian law, and 20,000 Roman citizens were settled in this territory.The number of colonists was increased by Mark Antony, Augustus (who constructed an aqueduct from the "Mons Tifata" and gave the town of Capua estates in the district of Knossos in Crete valued at 12 million sesterces) and Nero.In the war of 69 it took the side of Vitellius.