Social War

American  

noun

1. Greek History. the war between Athens and its confederates, 357–355 b.c.

2. Roman History. the war in Italy between Rome and its allies, 90–88 b.c.

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Example Sentences

The ancient Faventia, on the Via Aemilia, was obviously from its name founded by the Romans and had the citizenship before the Social War.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

After the Social War it became a municipium.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various

The state of feeling throughout Italy, before and immediately subsequent to the Social War, alienated from Rome the sympathetic genius of the kindred races from whom her most illustrious authors were drawn in later times.

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.

Mr. Strachan Davidson's explanation is perhaps the best, that Cicero means that the old lady was thinking of the Social War in B.C.

From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.

Metellus had himself fought in the Social War, and fought against the side to which the murdered prisoner belonged.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Church, Alfred John