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samnite::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | italian |
Examples of samnite
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Samnite tribes also inhabited the area.
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- An Oscan-speaking member of an ancient people of Campania who clashed repeatedly with the early Romans
- A Samnite (Latin Samnis, plural Samnites) was a Roman gladiator who fought with equipment styled on that of a warrior from Samnium: a short sword (gladius), a rectangular shield (scutum), a greave (ocrea), and a helmet. ...
- (Samnites) Samnium (Sannio) is a Latin exonym for a region of south or south and central Italy in Roman times. The name survives in Italian today, but today's territory comprising it is only a small portion of what it once was. The populations of Samnium were called Samnites by the Romans. ...
- (Samnites) Long rectangular shield, visor, plumed helmet and short sword. The name came from the people[?] of the same name Romans had conquered.
- (Samnites) a warlike people inhabiting south central Italy who contested Roman supremacy for much of the republican period. The name Samnite was also applied to a type of gladiator who wore a visored helmet and carried a sword and shield (Dersin).
- The Samnites lived in southern Italy; they fought two wars with Rome over territory; the first Samnite War took place between 343 and 341 BCE and the Second Samnite War lasted from 372-321 and 316-304 BCE; the Third Samnite War ended in 290 BCE; the Samnites suffered a loss at Aquilon in 293 BCE ...
