In the 1st century BC the Romans invaded Gaul and Britain. They were adept at drafting cultures, and Samhain was assimilated to the Day of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and gardens who was celebrated around 1 November, the time of the apple harvest.
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The Romans were called Romans because they were from Rome. Roman means people and things from Rome, similarly to English for England.
Britannia . It was first brought to the attention of the Roman people by the campaigns of Julius Caesar in 55 and 54 BC, but was not proven to be an island until the early eighties A.D., when the governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola sent an exploratory naval expedition around the north coast of Scotland
Pomona Day was a Roman festival. It was named after their goddess of fruits and gardens.
Rome. That's why they are called Romans.
During the Republic, the basic legal code was the Laws of the Twelve Tablets. Over the years these laws (and we don't know all of them) were reinterpreted, changed, and loopholes were found, but the basic rights of an individual remained the same.