The Paeligni or Peligni were an Italic tribe who lived in the Valle Peligna, in what is now Abruzzo, central Italy. The Paeligni are first mentioned as...
times. In the ancient era, it was one of the most important cities of the Paeligni and is known for being the native town of the Roman poet Ovid, of whom...
Angitia was a goddess among the Marsi, the Paeligni and other Oscan-Umbrian peoples of central Italy. She was associated in antiquity with snake-charmers...
mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus there were the Frentani, Marrucini, Paeligni, Dauni, and Umbrians. There might also have been contingents from the Marsi...
Paelignian) known only from inscriptions left by the Hernici, Marrucini and Paeligni, minor tribes of eastern central Italy. Adapted from the Etruscan alphabet...
abandon their planned war against Rome and instead campaign against the Paeligni. The friendly city-state of Carthage sent a congratulatory embassy to Rome...
Marsi were first mentioned as members of a confederacy with the Vestini, Paeligni and Marrucini. They joined the Samnites in 308 BC, and, on their submission...
Aurunci/Ausones Sidicini Campanians - Centered in the region of Naples Mamertines Paeligni Frentani - Centered on the southern Adriatic coast. Samnites - Centered...
Pydna in 168 BC, Livy remarks on how the Macedonian peltasts defeated the Paeligni and of how this shows the dangers of going directly at the front of a phalanx...
times. Corfinio was known as Corfinium when it was the chief city of the Paeligni, and became the capital of "Italia" against the Romans during the Social...
consuls. As 'consul' Silo was given command of the Marsic group (Marsi, Paeligni, Vestini, Marrucini, Picentes, Frentani), whereas his consular colleague...
Roman Alliance as a separate unit at the end of that war (see further Paeligni). A few inscriptions in the Marrucinian language survive. They indicate...
Campania remain with the Romans, who, for their part, find support among the Paeligni. The Roman-Samnite army under consuls Publius Decius Mus and Titus Manlius...
It has a surface of some 100 km2. The valley takes its name from the Paeligni. In prehistoric times, it was occupied by a lake which disappeared after...
91 BC Social War (91–87 BC): The Roman clients in Italy the Marsi, the Paeligni, the Vestini, the Marrucini, the Picentes, the Frentani, the Hirpini, the...
city has refused him armed support against Ptolemy. The Romans defeat the Paeligni and take their land, some (those who look well disposed towards Rome) they...
called upon to suppress supporters of the Catilinarian conspiracy among the Paeligni, an Italic confederation from what is now Abruzzo. Bibulus was firmly in...
of Roman victories against the Samnites instead decided to attack the Paeligni. The Samnites were a tribal federation living in the central Apennines...
killed and 8000 captured. A force of Samnite fugitives are defeated by the Paeligni. Fulvius defeats a united force of Etruscans from Clusium and Perusia,...
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