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  Sabine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The tribe of the Sabines (Latin Sabini) was an Italic tribe of ancient Italy.
Their language belonged to the Sabellic subgroup of Italic languages and was akin to Oscan and Umbrian.
Their original territory, straddling the modern regions of Lazio, Umbria, and Abruzzi, was known as Sabinium in Latin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabine   (291 words)

  
 LIVY [Thus L1v1us] (59... - Online Information article about LIVY [Thus L1v1us] (59...
people, " the first in the world," from the beginning.
To the same general attitude is also due the omission by Livy of all that has no direct bearing on the fortunes of the Roman people.
secret of the rise of Rome, not in any large historical causes, but in the moral qualities of the people themselves, and that he should have looked upon the contemplation of these as the best remedy for the vices of his own degenerate days.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LEO_LOB/LIVY_Thus_L1v1us_59_BCAD_17_.html   (6999 words)

  
 Roma, Italy
The settlements at Palatine and Quirinal were two of numerous Italic speaking communities which existed in Latium, a plain on the Italian peninsula, by the 1st millennium BC.
The origins of the Italic peoples is not known, but they may have descended from Indo-Europeans who migrated from north of the Alps in the second half of the 2nd millennium BC or from a blending of these peoples with Mediterranean people, perhaps from North Africa.
In the 8th century BC these Italic speakers — Latins (in the west), Sabines (in the upper valley of the Tiber), Umbrians (in the north-east), Samnites (in the South), Oscans and others — shared the penisula with two other major ethnic groups: the Etruscans, in the North and the Greeks in the south.
www.creekin.net /c4637-n91-roma-italy.html   (3605 words)

  
 Italic
Related Topics: alphabet, term, Old, means, Empire, before, period, Ancient, Italic, typography, now, type, historic, Roman
The term is most commonly used to refer to the peoples and languages of what is now Italy from the historic period before the Roman Empire.
Italic type, used in typography for emphasis and for other reasons.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/i/it/italic.html   (119 words)

  
 Rome, city, Italy: Rome before Augustus
On the side of the Tiber opposite the Palatine is the Janiculum, a ridge running north and south, which was fortified in early times.
The vitality of the patricians was remarkable, and long after political power had been granted to the plebs, experienced patricians continued to govern Rome.
Within ten years Caesar and Pompey fell out; Pompey joined the senatorial party, and Caesar (as the champion of the people and of republican legality) led his devoted army against Pompey.
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 Rome - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
No change was made in the government, but Octavian received from the senate the title Augustus and from the people life tribuneship; this, with the governorship of all the provinces conferred by the senate, made him the real ruler.
Sustained by the people, the popes soon exercised greater power in Rome than did the imperial governors, and many secular buildings were converted into churches.
During the Babylonian captivity of the popes at Avignon (1309-78) Rome was desolate, economically ruined, and in constant turmoil.
www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=ROME&enc=40929   (5505 words)

  
 Archytas
The evidence suggests that most of Archytas' military campaigns were directed not at other Greeks but at native Italic peoples such as the Messapians and Lucanians, with whom Tarentum had been in constant conflict since its founding.
We have very little evidence for Archytas' cosmology, yet he was responsible for one of the most famous cosmological arguments in antiquity, an argument which has been hailed as “the most compelling argument ever produced for the infinity of space” (Sorabji 1988, 125).
For people do not want more than their share, and equality exists, once this has come into being.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/archytas   (13129 words)

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