Faliscans
- plural of Faliscan.
Example Sentences
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The Roman was ready at every moment to draw his sword for battle with Faliscans, Samnites, or Etruscans.
From William Hickling Prescott by Peck, Harry Thurston
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
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 ?
The Senate referred the ambassadors to Camillus for their first answer; and he, after receiving a contribution in money, and having made a treaty of alliance with the Faliscans, drew off his forces.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey
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)
