- The
Hirpini (Latin:
Hirpini) were an
ancient Samnite tribe of
Southern Italy.
While generally regarded as
having been Samnites,
sometimes they are treated...
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cultural region of
Southern Italy. It was the
inland territory of the
ancient Hirpini tribe, and its
extent matches approximately today's
province of Avellino...
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which it
belonged at contact:
Pliny the
Elder expressly ****igns it to the
Hirpini,
while Livy's
wording is
somewhat obscure and
Ptolemy considers the town...
-
commentary to Aeneid, XI. 785 "Mount
Soracte is
located in the
territory of the
Hirpini next to Via Flaminia. It was on this
mountain that a
sacrifice to Dis Pater...
- Trivi**** is the
ancient Hirpini and
Samnium town
nowadays called Trevico. The
Roman poet
Horace mentions Trivi**** in his well-known
account of a journey...
- name from an
ancient tribe, the Dauni,
although it was
strongly held by
Hirpini instead. The
mountains and
hills are
bounded northwards by the Fortore...
- no
connection to the sea. The
ancient inhabitants of the area were the
Hirpini,
whose name
stems from the
Oscan term
hirpus ("wolf"), an
animal that is...
- Paeligni, the Vestini, the Marrucini, the Picentes, the Frentani, the
Hirpini, the Iapyges, Pompeii, Venosa,
Lucania and
Samnium rebelled against Rome...
- the Sabines, they
formed a
confederation consisting of four tribes: the
Hirpini, Caudini, Caraceni, and Pentri.
Ancient Gr****
historians considered the...
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Sabines Samnitics Bruttii Frentani Lucani Samnites Pentri Caraceni Caudini Hirpini Others:
Aequi Fidenates Hernici Picentes Vestini Sicels Venetics Ligures...
