Meaning of Veientines | Babel Free

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The people of the ancient city Veii.

historical, plural, plural-only

Examples

“1838, B. G. Niebuhr (tr. Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall), The History Of Rome, second volume, third ed. rev., London, http://archive.org/details/historyofrome001903mbp But those whom Cæso Fabius led against the Veientines (28), did not look⟳ upon him as a legitimate consul: - - (footnote 28) Thus Zonaras, VII. 17, and Dionysius, IX.2. so also the manuscripts in Livy, II.43, not the author, whose meaning unquestionably requires the change⟳ introduced by Sigonius, ducendus Fabio in Aequos in Veientes etc. But that the former is the correct⟳ view⟳ is proved decisively by the superiority of the Veientines after the campaign, while the Æquians were so far from this that Rome was able to turn⟳ all her forces against the others”

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