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Samnite

noun
1.
An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania who clashed repeatedly with the early Romans.





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... Tarentum, our host, who had remained throughout in friendship with the Roman people, said he had heard from older men that Archytas held this conversation with Caius Pontius the Samnite, the father of him by whom, in the Caudian[11] battle, Spurius Postumius and Titus Veturius, the consuls, were overcome, on which occasion Plato the Athenian had been present at that discourse; and I find that he came to Tarentum in the consulship of Lucius Camillus and Appius ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome • Various


Words linked to "Samnite" :   Campania, Italian


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