Faliscan
noun
a member of an ancient people who inhabited southern Etruria.
Faliscans
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pluralof Faliscan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Aubrey Stewart
The Roman was ready at every moment to draw his sword for battle with Faliscans, Samnites, or Etruscans.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
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 Jesse Benedict Carter
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 John S. (John Stuart) White
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 Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
