Faliscan
Americannoun
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a member of an ancient people who inhabited southern Etruria.
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the Italic language spoken by this people, closely related to Latin.
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Etymology
Origin of Faliscan
1590–1600; < Latin Falisc ( us ) of Falerii, major city of the Faliscans + -an
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At the decree of the Senate, Camillus raised a force and invaded the Faliscan territory.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
In the Faliscan country on the Via Campana in the Campus Cornetus is a grove in which rises a spring, and there the bones of birds and of lizards and other reptiles are seen lying.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
A large number of inscriptions consisting mainly of proper names may be regarded as Etruscan rather than Faliscan, and they have been disregarded in the account of the dialect just given.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Of this latter process we have now a beautiful sample in a skull discovered in the excavations of Faleria, and exhibited in the Faliscan Museum at the Villa Giulia, outside the Porta del Popolo.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
This shows some of the phonetic characteristics of the Faliscan dialect, viz.:—
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Among the incidents of the life of Camillus, a story is told of an event that happened, when, after having subdued the Veientines, he drove the Faliscans out their city of Falerii.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
Such a place is Falerii, in the country of the Faliscans.
From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Carter, Jesse Benedict
And when the people had ratified the election, he marched with his forces into the territories of the Faliscans, and laid siege to Falerii, a well-fortified city, and plentifully stored with all necessaries of war.
From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by White, John S. (John Stuart)
For the Faliscans, like the Greeks, had one common school, as they wished all their children to be brought up together.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
A few days sufficed to lay the Faliscans in the dust they had so foolishly kicked up, and in the clouds of which we very rapidly lose sight of them.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
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