Sabellians

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Sabellians is a collective ethnonym for a group of Italic peoples or tribes inhabiting central Italy at the time of the rise of Rome. The name was first applied by Niebuhr[1] and encompassed the Sabines, Marsi, Marrucini and Vestini. Pliny in one passage says the Samnites were also called Sabelli,[2] and this is confirmed by Strabo.[3] The term Sabellus is found also in Livy and other Latin writers, as an adjective form for Samnite, though never for the name of the nation;[4] but it is frequently also used, especially by the poets, simply as an equivalent for the adjective Sabine.[5]

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  1. ^ vol. i. p. 91; see Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, s. v. Sabini.
  2. ^ Plin. H.N., iii. 12. ยง. 17
  3. ^ Strabo, volume v.
  4. ^ Liv. viii. 1, x. 19
  5. ^ Virg. G. ii. 167, Aen. vii. 665; Hor. Carm. iii. 6. 37; Juv. iii. 169.

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