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Headword: *samni=tai
Adler number: sigma,78
Translated headword: Samnites
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Name of a people.
Greek Original:
*samni=tai: o)/noma e)/qnous.
Notes:
In central-southern Italy. See generally OCD4 s.v. Samnium.
For the Samn- version of the name cf. e.g. Diodorus Siculus 21.6.2, but in Greek writers 'Saunites' is far more common. (For instances here in the Suda, see under gamma 13 and pi 376.)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 October 2001@03:21:45.
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