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	HIRPINI (from an Oscan or Sabine stem hirpo-, "wolf ") - Online Information article about HIRPINI (from an Oscan or ...
		HIRPINI (from an Oscan or Sabine stem hirpo-, "wolf ")
		In the ethnology of Italy the Hirpini appear from one point of view as the purest type of Safine stock, namely, that in which the proportion of ethnica formed with the suffix -no-is highest, thirty-three out of thirty-six tribal or municipal epithets being formed thereby (e.g.
		HIRPINI (from an Oscan or Sabine stem hirpo-, "...
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HIG_HOR/HIRPINI_from_an_Oscan_or_Sabin.html (682 words)

	Samnium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For most of their history the Samnites were landlocked, but during a brief period they controlled parts of both coasts of the Italian peninsula.
		The Samnites were composed of at least four tribes: the Pentri, the Caraceni, the Caudini and the Hirpini, and later may have been joined by the Frentani.
		The earliest written record of the people is a treaty with the Romans from 354 BC, which set their border at the Liris River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samnium (270 words)

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		Supposing for a moment that the swineherd Faustulus was of the Hirpini, then we would have to conclude that Romulus was adopted into the Hirpini tribe and that their tutelary god, Hirpus/Hirpa, became his own.
		The Romans, as newcomers, may have made a pact or treaty with the Hirpini, and part of the mechanism of treaty might have included the adoption of the Romans, through their chief, into the Hirpini clan, thereby giving the Romans natural rights.
		Summing up the arguments for the theory that Hirpa was the name of the deity of Rome, hirpus is a word of such rarity that it would not have been widely known among the general populace, one measure of the sacredness of a word being its scarcity in ordinary usage.
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	SABLE (FRANCE) - LoveToKnow Article on SABLE (FRANCE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There remain, therefore, the three suffixes -co-, -no-, and -ti-, and it will be seen from the table that the relative frequency of these suffixes in different dialect-areas varies very greatly.
		The suffix -no-, for example, has almost driven out any other in the district of the Hirpini, and it is greatly preponderant among the Campani, in the district of the Lucani, and among the Latini and Sabini themselves.
		On the other hand, the -co- suffix, which is nowhere frequent, is practically confined to the central areas.
	29.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SABLE_FRANCE_.htm (933 words)

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		Next came the people of Picentia, the Frentani, the Hirpini, the people of Pompeii and Venusia, the Apulians, the Lucanians, and the Samnites.
		Minatius showed such loyalty to the Romans in this war that he mustered a legion among his people [the Hirpini] and joined Titus Didius in the occupation of Herculaneum, and Lucius Sulla in the siege of Pompeii and the capture of Compsa.
		Several historians preserve the record of his virtues; the account in the Annals of Q. Hortensius is particularly vivid.
	www.skidmore.edu /classics/courses/2004spring/cl311/background.doc (1124 words)

	http://www.voicenet.com/~mimir/Samnites.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Should he who receives this reward, afterwards change and become wicked, he is dishonored, and the wife who had been given is taken away from him.
		Beyond are the Hirpini, who are also Samnites: their name they take from the wolf, which conducted their colony; a wolf being called by the Samnites Hirpos : these people border on the Leucani in the interior.
		The Samnites were divided into four tribal states (Caraceni, Caudini, Hirpini, Pentri), each administered by a meddix, but were linked together in a confederation which had a federal diet and possibly an assembly.
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	Samnite -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		These tribes, who spoke Oscan and were probably an offshoot of the Sabini, apparently referred to themselves not as Samnite but by the Oscan form of the word, which appears in Latin as Sabine ( q.v.
		To the north of them were the Pentri and Caraceni, who, with the Hirpini and Caudini, constituted the Samnite confederation in the wars of the 4th century BC.
		The Roman policy of separation cut the Hirpini off from these allies by the refoundation of their town of Maleventum as the Latin colony of...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9065219 (505 words)

	Sulla - InfoWrangler Wikipedia Snapshot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, ( Rome, around 138 BC - 78 BC) known in the English -speaking world simply as Sulla, both ripped apart the late Roman Republic with civil war and tried to reconstruct the system with an aristocratic reform.
		In 89 BC captured Aeclanum, the chief town of Hirpini, by setting on fire the wooden breastwork by which it was defended.
		Sulla's name is also seen as "Silla", presumably due to corruption of ancient writing "SVILLA" (Suilla), that went in the 2 directions of Sulla and Silla.
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	:::: Villa Divina ::::
		Its name is derived from Abellinum, a stronghold of the Hirpini (an ancient Italic people) and later a Roman colony, the site of which lies just to the east of the modern city.
		Conquered by the Lombards in the 8th century and destroyed by the Holy Roman emperor Otto I the Great, Avellino passed in turn to the princely families of Balzo, Filangieri, and Caracciolo.
		But you'll also be tempted by our fennel liqueur, our laurel and mandarin liqueurs, not to mention the exquisite ' babà al limoncello ' (limoncello flavoured cakes) which are all produced by Shaker.
	www.villadivina.com /inglese/Avellino.asp (246 words)

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		With the reconstruction of the modern centre of Conza della Campania in another area, the original ancient centre has assumed the name of Archaeological Park of Ancient Compsa.
		The city was, in the pre-Roman era, together with Aeclanum the most important of the urban settlements of the Hirpini.
		The archaeological research conducted in the area has provided extremely interesting data, among which that of the human presence at least since the VI century B.C.
	www.cmaltairpinia.it /altra_irpinia/altra_inglese/comuni/conza/itinerario_03.htm (74 words)

	VOLCEL - LoveToKnow Article on VOLCEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With this group is sometimes included another island, Arzo-bispo, nearer the Bonin group.
		BUCCINO), an ancient town of Lucania, 2128 ft. above sea-level, the chief town of the independent tribe of the Volceiani, Vulcientes or Volcentani, whose territory was bounded N. by that of the Hirpini, W. and S. by Lucania and E. by the territory of Venusia.
		It became a municipium, and in A.D. 323 had an extensive territory attached to it, including the town of Numistro, the large Cyclopean walls of which may still be seen, 2 m.
	84.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VO/VOLCEL.htm (811 words)

	Livy's History of Rome
		Trebius was a native of Compsa, a man of note amongst his people, but his influence was less than that of the faction of the Mopsii, a family which owed its predominance to the favour and support of Rome.
		Amongst the Hirpini, also, three towns which had revolted from Rome, Vercellium, Vescellium, and Sicilinum, were retaken by the praetor M. Valerius, and the authors of the revolt beheaded.
		This same summer Marcellus made frequent excursions from Nola, which he was holding with a garrison, into the territory of the Hirpini and in the neighbourhood of Samnite Caudium.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Livy/Livy23.html (19983 words)

	Roman History from 121 to 79 BCE: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The equestrians and others who would lose power and wealth if the allies should succeed in their desires actively opposed their interests and drove out their proponents.
		Revolt broke out amongst the Asculans, the Marsi, the Paeligni, Vestini, Marrucini, Picentes, Frentani, Hirpini, Pompeians and Venusians, Iapygians, Lucanians, the Samnites, the people of Nola, and others.
		Marius served in 90 BCE as legate under Rutilius Lupus the consul.
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	Dacians, the Wolf-People
		We may further cite the Lycaones of Arcadia, and Lycaonia or Lucaonia in Asia Minor, and especially the Arcadian Zeus Lykaios" and Apollo Lykagenes; the latter surname has been explained as "he of the she-wolf," "he born of the she-wolf," that is, born of Leto in the shape of a she-wolf.
		218), the name of the Samnite tribe of the Lucani came from Lykos, "wolf." Their neighbors, the Hirpini, took their name from hirpus, the Samnite word for "wolf." At the foot of Mount Soracte lived the Hirpi Sorani, the "wolves of Sora" (the Volscian city).
		According to the tradition transmitted by Servius, an oracle had advised the Hirpi Sorani to live "like wolves," that is, by rapine.
	www.angelfire.com /in/cih/dacians.html (1726 words)

	Not quite...
		It was meant to be a position for the other various Italic tribes extant in ancient Italy.
		That is the Etruscans, Hirpini, Sabines et al.
		Basically whoever wanted to be a resurrectionist group but didnt have the muscle to do it.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/486046 (202 words)

	Livy's History of Rome
		Reconnoitring parties who were sent out to watch his movements reported that he had taken the direction of Bruttium.
		[27.15]About this time the Hirpini, the Lucani and the Vulcientes surrendered to the consul Q. Fulvius, and delivered up the garrisons which Hannibal had placed in their cities.
		He accepted their submission graciously, and only reproached them for the mistake they had made in the past.
	mcadams.posc.mu.edu /txt/ah/Livy/Livy27.html (21212 words)

	Buck's Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian: Introduction
		But they were subjected to Latin influence from a very early period, and the meagre remains that we have give no satisfactory picture of their characteristics.
		Oscan inscriptions have been found in Samnium (inclusive of the territory of the Frentani and Hirpini), Campania, northern Apulia, Lucania, and Bruttium, and in the Sicilian city of Messana from the period after its occupation by the Campanian Mamertines.
		These are precisely the regions which we know were occupied by Samnite tribes.
	www.forumromanum.org /latin/buck_1.html (5479 words)

	Roman Revolution and Civil Wars by Sanderson Beck
		When Drusus was assassinated in 91 BC, the Italian action committees organized for war, and in Asculum Picenians were provoked to massacre the resident Romans.
		A confederation of the Marsi, Paeligni, Vestini, Picentes, Marrucini, Frentani, Samnites, Hirpini, and Lucanians put together an army of 100,000 to force their demands on Rome or gain independence.
		Rome called on Spaniards, Numidians, and even enrolled ex-slaves to raise fifteen legions with 150,000 men.
	www.san.beck.org /EC25-RomanRevolution.html (12203 words)

	A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - pponax, Hipponicus, Hipponium, Hipponous, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - pponax, Hipponicus, Hipponium, Hipponous, Hippotades, Hippothous, Hirpini, Hirtius, Hispalis, Hispania
		This page contains descriptions for the following names Hipponax, Hipponicus, Hipponium, Hipponous, Hippotades, Hippothous, Hirpini, Hirtius, Hispalis, Hispania
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	Bibliography on Plutarch
		Keaveney A. "A note on Plutarch, Sulla 5.5" LCM II (1977) :151 Abstract: Le César mentionné dans ce passage est C. Iulius Caesar Strabo, concurrent de Sylla pour le consulat en 88 av.
		J.C. Keaveney A. "Sulla, the Marsi and the Hirpini" CP LXXVI (1981) :292-296 Abstract: The Marsi of Plutarch, Sulla IV,1 are almost unquestionably the German Marsi.
		3P from Book II of Sulla's memoirs does not refer to the same incident as the Plutarch passage, but to some incident during the Social War involving Sulla and the Hirpini.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/classics/chaironeia/bibliography.html (13967 words)

	The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six by Titus Livius - Full Text Free Book (Part 6/10)
		Hirpini, some of the Apulians, the Samnites, except the Pentrians, all
		with a garrison, into the lands of the Hirpini and Caudine Samnites,
		fields of the Hirpini and Samnites, lest he too should be a burthen to
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