Salii
Americannoun
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“I don’t feel like I’m in a shelter,” said Polina Salii, 11, whose family fled the fighting in Pokrovsk, a town in the east.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2022
They also have fraternities like ours; there is a fraternity of the Luperci, and the Salii, and others, among the Sabines.
From The Childhood of Rome by Louise Lamprey
It was hung up in the temple, and was considered the especial property of the Salii, or Leapers, the young men who danced the war dance, for it was they who had found it.
From The Childhood of Rome by Louise Lamprey
Marindin's article "Salii," Dict. of Antiqq., is very useful and sensible.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
They perhaps paid tribute, and they certainly furnished Rome with 36 soldiers; Salii seniores and Salii juniores are mentioned in the Notitia dignitatum, and Salii appear among the auxilia palatina.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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