Sabellians

Sabellians

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 [vol. i. p. 91; see Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, "s. v. Sabini".] and encompassed the Sabines, Marsi, Marrucini and Vestini. Pliny in one passage says the Samnites were also called "Sabelli", [Plin. "H.N.", iii. 12. §. 17] and this is confirmed by Strabo. [Strabo, volume v.] 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; [Liv. viii. 1, x. 19] but it is frequently also used, especially by the poets, simply as an equivalent for the adjective Sabine. [Virg. G. ii. 167, Aen. vii. 665; Hor. Carm. iii. 6. 37; Juv. iii. 169.]

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ee also

*Samnites
*Sabines
*Italic peoples


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