Faliscan
Americannoun
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Faliscans,
plural
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Faliscan
plural
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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.
adjective
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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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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
Except possibly Faliscan, the other dialects of Italy did not borrow their alphabet directly from the western Greeks as the Romans did, but received it at second hand through the Etruscans.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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
At the decree of the Senate, Camillus raised a force and invaded the Faliscan territory.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
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 Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
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
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 Aubrey Stewart
Camillus, it is said, had him whipped back into the town by his pupils, and the Faliscans were so affected by this generosity that they at once surrendered.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
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
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