paeligni造句

• The Paeligni, who also sided with the Samnites, were defeated next.
• After the battle, 5, 000 Samnites made their way back home from Sentinum through the land of the Paeligni.
• The Roman side was protected by Italian allies : two cohorts of Marrucini and Paeligni and two squadrons of Samite cavalry.
• A broad belt of Samnite territory was annexed, separating the Samnites from their neighbours to the north-the Marsi and Paeligni.
• Ancient Superaequum was a town of the Paeligni, one of the three which possessed municipal rights, and among which the territory of that people was divided.
• Angitia is attested by inscriptions in the territory of the Marsi and elsewhere in the Iguvine Tablets, and in inscriptions in the territories of the Paeligni, Vestini, and Sabines.
• Rome fought with the support of the Italic peoples of central Italy which had become her allies during the Samnite Wars : the Marsi, Marrucini, Paeligni, Vestini and Frentani.
• Meliboeus'favourable comparison to the nectar of Paelignian bees, is seen by some scholars as being an aspirational reference to Ovid ( who was born into the Paeligni tribe ).
• Oscan was spoken by a number of tribes, including the Hernican, Marrucinian and Paelignian ) known only from inscriptions left by the Hernici, Marrucini and Paeligni, minor tribes of eastern central Italy.
• Silo was given command of the Marsic group ( Marsi, Paeligni, Vestini, Marrucini, Picentes, Frentani ), whereas his consular colleague Gaius Papius Mutilus was given command of the Samnite group.
• However, at the battle of Pydna in 168 BC, Livy remarks on how the Macedonian'Peltasts'defeated the Paeligni and of how this shows the dangers of going directly at the front of a phalanx.
• This, combined with the mentioned alliances struck after the Second Samnite War with the Marsi, Marrucini, and Paeligni ( 304 BC ) and the Vestini ( 302 BC ), gave Rome control of this part of central Italy.
• Corfinium was the chief city of the Paeligni, situated in the valley of the L . Domitius with 30 cohorts, and was the only place which offered any effectual resistance to the arms of Caesar during his advance through Italy.
• The name Paeligni may belong to the NO-class of ethnica ( see Marrucini ), but the difference that it has no vowel before the suffix suggests that it may rather be parallel with the suffix of Lat . " privignus ".
• Ovid speaks of it as one of the three municipal towns whose districts composed the territory of the Paeligni : and this is confirmed both by Pliny and the " Liber Coloniarum "; yet it does not seem to have ever been large, and Ovid himself designates it as a small provincial town.
• Towards the end Second Samnite War, Roman military superiority was great enough that Rome could afford to at the same time launch campaigns into Etruria and Umbria in 311-309 BC . In 304 BC Rome also won crushing victories against the Hernici and Aequi and in the following years concluding treaties with the tribes of the Paeligni, Marrucini, Frentani and Vestini.
• Livy wrote that " the Aequian name was almost blotted out . " Still in 304 BC, the Sabellian peoples of modern northern Abruzzo, the Marsi and Marucini ( on the Adriatic coast ), the latter s Oscan neighbours, the Paeligni, and the Frentani, ( Oscans who lived in the southern coast of Abruzzo and the coastal part of modern Molise ) stipulated treaties with Rome.
• But, like the whole district of the Paeligni, it was extremely cold in winter, whence Ovid himself, and Silius Italicus in imitation of him, calls it " gelidus Sulmo " Its territory was fertile, cultivation of both in grain and wine are common, and one district, the Pagus Fabianus, is particularly mentioned by Pliny for the care bestowed on the irrigation of the vineyards.