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Samnium

[ sam-nee-uhm ]

noun

  1. an ancient country in central Italy.


Samnium

/ ˈæɪə /

noun

  1. an ancient country of central Italy inhabited by Oscan-speaking Samnites: corresponds to the present-day regions of Abruzzi, Molise, and part of Campania
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Other Word Forms

  • ·Ծٱ [sam, -nahyt], adjective noun
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C'est en vertu de ce droit de la guerre que Rome a étendu la solitude autour d'elle; du territoire où les Volsques avaient vingt-trois cités elle a fait les marais pontins; les cinquante-trois villes du Latium ont disparu; dans le Samnium on put longtemps reconnaître les lieux où les armées romaines avaient passé, moins aux vestiges de leurs camps qu'à la solitude qui règnait aux environs.”—Fustel de Coulanges, La Cité antique, pp. 263-264.531.Plato,

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Il a �t� parmi vous consul, censeur, �dile; il a pris Taurasia, Cisauna, le Samnium.

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Il a pris le Samnium et la Lucanie.

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The man who brought the grain from Africa to the public stores at Ostia, the baker who made it into loaves for distribution, the butchers who brought pigs from Samnium, Lucania or Bruttium, the purveyors of wine and oil, the men who fed the furnaces of the public baths, were bound to their callings from one generation to another.

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But with the loss of Tarentum in 209 and the gradual reconquest by the Romans of Samnium and Lucania his hold on south Italy was almost lost.

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