Numantia
Americannoun
noun
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We must go back to the days of Leonidas and Regulus to find parallels for the exploits of our own Indian army; to Numantia and Saguntum for parallels to Saragossa and Gerona.
From Southern Spain by Calvert, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
Meantime, after an interval of some years, in 143 the war had broken out afresh in the nearer province where the struggle centered about the town of Numantia.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Numantia is an early Saragossa, Saragossa a modern Numantia.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The preceeding successes caused great depression amongst the Spanish troops, and on the following day the battalion of Numantia, numbering 650 disciplined men, deserted in a body, and joined the Chilian forces at Chancay.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 1 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
If the theoretical scheme of the earlier Roman camp seemed based on the long narrow oblong, the actual remains of legionary encampments of the second century B.C. at Numantia include many squares.
From Ancient Town-Planning by Haverfield, F. (Francis)
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