The Herniques were an ancient population of the Latium in Italy, between the lake of Fucino and the river Sacco ( Trerus ); neighbors of the Volsques in the south, the Eques and the Marses in north.

They preserved a long time their independence and in -486, they are still sufficiently powerful to conclude a treaty on equal bases with the Latin . They took their distance with respect to Rome into 362 and 306.

In 306, the Second war samnite finishes and the Roman Sénat drag to decide fate of the prisoners hernic who fought at the side of Samnites. The majority of the hernic cities declare the war in Rome then, except for Ferentinum, Aletrium and Verulae. Herniques are easily subjected by the consul Quintus Marcius Tremulus, and their principal city Anagni is taken and reduced to the row of will praefectura, while Ferentinum, Aletrium and Verulae are rewarded for their fidelity by the granting of the statute of Municipe S free, and by the right of marriage with the Romans, privilege enviable at this time.

The name of Herniques, like that of Volsques, is absent from list of the Italian people able to provide troops in -225; that which one deduces that their territory was not different any more of the Latium and had probably received the Roman Citoyenneté complete. The oldest Latin inscriptions of district date from the social Guerre and do not show local characteristics.

Nothing proves that Herniques ever spoke a dialect really different from the Latin ; but one or two gloses indicates that they referred characteristic of vocabulary, as one can expect it among people which maintained practices local: Their name with his termination in " - cus ". The class with the other tribes whose name finishes in " - cus" , (as Volsques) would seem to be the first inhabitants of the Western coast of Italy, being established before the tribes whose name is suffix in " - naked ".