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Definition of Sabines
1. sabine [n] - See also: sabine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabines
Literary usage of Sabines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1880)
"War with the Sabines.—The Sabines, who lived farther up the mountains, next raised
an army and marched to Rome, and encamped on the Quirinal hill, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Companion to Rape of Sabines in Escorial. The two armies, in presence of each
other, are restrained from hostilities Rape of the Sabines, Nicolas Poussin, ..."
3. Goldsmith's Roman History: Abridged by Himself, for the Use of Schools by Oliver Goldsmith (1825)
"The Sabines, who were then considered as the most Warlike people of Italy, ...
The Sabines as he had expected, were among the foremost who came to be ..."
4. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1841)
"Lista, the metropolis of the Aborigines, was destroyed by the Sabines from ...
He said that the Sabines from Amiternum conquered the Reatine territory from ..."
5. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"It cannot be doubted that the Sabines, the inhabitants of the central mountains
of Italy, penetrated in the earliest period into the plains, ..."
6. The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, William Smith, Leonhard Schmitz, Julius Charles Hare, Connop Thirlwall (1831)
"THE Sabines AND SABELLIANS. THE Romans had no general name comprehending the
Sabines along with the tribes supposed to have issued from them: the latter, ..."
7. The History of Rome by Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Leonhard Schmitz (1828)
"THE Sabines AND SABELLIANS. THE Romans have no common national name for the
Sabines and the tribes which are supposed to have issued from them: the latter, ..."
8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Sabines. Central Italy, who played an important part in the early history of Rome.
According to all old writers they were one of the most ancient nations of ..."
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