Silures

[ sil-yuh-reez ]

plural noun

1. a British Celtic tribe resident in southeastern Wales at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain.

Silures

/ saɪˈlʊəriːz /

plural noun

1. a powerful and warlike tribe of ancient Britain, living chiefly in SE Wales, who fiercely resisted Roman invaders in the 1st century a.d

Example Sentences

Here was quartered the second Augustan legion, and this was the principal Roman town in the country of the Silures.

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The Silures were not reduced by the loss of Caractacus, and the great defeat they had suffered.

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All that you urge against the Trinobantes and the tribes of Kent the Silures might urge with equal force against us.

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The Silures were defeated in 50, the Decangi in 58, the Ordovices in 78.

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This was the renowned region of the Silures, inhabited by three powerful tribes.

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