. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . e the Sidiciuiof Teauum and the Aurunci of Cales, alone retained theii- libertyamong the movmtains which separate the Yultm-nus from the Liils. Livy, vi. 12 : Iimumeral)ilem multitudinem liberoiuiii capitimi in eis fuisse locis, quisnunc, vix seminario exigiii) militum lelicto, seiTitia Romana ab solitudine vindicant.^ Diouys., Ant. Ram., vi. 32, aud Livy, ii. 2G. Homer, Odyss. x. 89, ? Pliuy, Xat. Hist., iii. i), . . sumnium Libeii Patris cum Cerere certameu. Cf. Floras,I. 16; Strabo,
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . e the Sidiciuiof Teauum and the Aurunci of Cales, alone retained theii- libertyamong the movmtains which separate the Yultm-nus from the Liils. Livy, vi. 12 : Iimumeral)ilem multitudinem liberoiuiii capitimi in eis fuisse locis, quisnunc, vix seminario exigiii) militum lelicto, seiTitia Romana ab solitudine vindicant.^ Diouys., Ant. Ram., vi. 32, aud Livy, ii. 2G. Homer, Odyss. x. 89, ? Pliuy, Xat. Hist., iii. i), . . sumnium Libeii Patris cum Cerere certameu. Cf. Floras,I. 16; Strabo, V. iv. 9; Cicero, de Leye Aijmr. i. 5, 7. H XCVUl tXTRODrcTlnX. On tlic (itlicr side of tlic [iciiiiisula, in A[)uli;i, the liasis n1 thepopulation was also of Ausoiiian origin, as is [Hovcd by tlicnames of tlio to-\ms of tlio interior, and by the use of Ost-ans])read over a great part of southern It;dy. ^ Originally, the Sahiues, with -whom almost all the Sahelliaupeoples are eoimeeted, dwelt in the high country of the ujiperAbruxzi, round about Amitenium, whence issu(> the Velino, Fronto,. Wall of llip town iif Aunuici. and Pescara, and where the late melting of the snow sustains thepasturage when the sun is already scorching the ]ilain. Theneethey swejit down upon the territory of lleate, out of which theydrove the Casoi, and aiiived by way of Mount liUcretilis at theTiber. On the north they pressed the Umbrians across the Nera ;on the south they occupied a i)art of the left bank of the Aiiio, PaterqiieSabiniiw (Vir^., yf,n., vii. 178).= Taken from llie Ann. (hi Hull., \. iv. 1S3!) OSCANS AXD SABELLIAXS. XCIX auil ill the eighth ceutmy tliev Aveve, after the Etruscau.^, the uwi^ipowerful people in the peuiuf^iila. The Sabiiies, shepherds and husbaudmen, lilie all the Sabellians,lived in villages, and notwithstanding the large population, -whielibrought under cultiu-e and peopled the land up to the sum-mits of the most rugged nioimtains, they had scarce any toMTisbut Amitc
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