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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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... old Roman type than the patrician fops in the circus or the Forum, or the city mob which was fed in idleness on free grants of corn. When Samnium and Tuscany were conquered, a third of the lands had been confiscated to the Roman State, under the name of Ager Publicus. Samnite and Etruscan gentlemen had recovered part of it under lease, much as the descendants of the Irish chiefs held their ancestral domains as tenants of the Cromwellians. The land law of the Gracchi was well intended, but it bore hard on many of the leading provincials, who had seen their estates ...
— Caesar: A Sketch • James Anthony Froude


Words linked to "Samnite" :   Campania, Italian


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