- The
Hirpini (Latin:
Hirpini) were an
ancient Samnite tribe of
Southern Italy.
While generally regarded as
having been Samnites,
sometimes they are treated...
-
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...
-
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...
- of
Aequum Tuti****, not far from La Starza, was
formerly credited to the
Hirpini Samnites,
although there is no
evidence of this (except for the Samnitic...
- 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...
- 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...
- the Sabines, they
formed a
confederation consisting of four tribes: the
Hirpini, Caudini, Caraceni, and Pentri.
Ancient Gr****
historians considered the...
-
originally an
estate belonging to one of this
family in the
country of the
Hirpini.
Their most
famous member is
Gaius C****ius Longinus, an ********in of Julius...
-
Vulcientes or Volcentani,
whose territory was
bounded north by that of the
Hirpini, west and
south by
Lucania and east by the
territory of Venusia. Some pre-Roman...
