Samnite
Britishnoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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Samnite bronze head, a rare Waldesian Evangelical community and an ancient annual pageant with pagan roots that venerates a circular cane garlanded in wild cyclamen flowers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
Between the cherry crop in June and the hazelnut harvest in October, the villagers of Visciano, high in the Samnite Hills of southern Italy, have plenty of time to think.
From Time Magazine Archive
This bas-relief is terminated by the combat between a light-armed gladiator and a Samnite.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
Varro states that the name was Sabine, and meant forum vetus, and also that the town itself was Samnite, but he is probably wrong.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
The defeated nations would not, however, submit to Rome without one more final struggle, and the third Samnite war was renewed the following year, for which the Samnites called to their aid the Gauls.
From Ancient States and Empires by John Lord
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