Sabini

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Săbīni: ōrum, m.,
I the Sabines, an ancient Italian people adjoining the Latins, a part of whom, as early as the time of Romulus, were united with the Romans as one people, under the name of Quirites, Plin. 3, 12, 17, § 108; Cato ap. Serv. Verg. A. 8, 638; Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 29; id. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll.; Col. praef. § 19; Liv. 1, 9 sq.; 1, 9, 31; 33, 2, 16 sq.; 3, 26 sq.; Cic. Rep. 2, 7, 12; id. Off. 1, 11, 35; id. Balb. 13, 31: rigidi, Ov. M. 14, 797; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 25 et saep. —Meton. (cf.: Bruttii, Lucani, and v. Varr. L. L. 5, § 32 Müll.), the Sabine territory: ex Sabinis, Varr. R. R. 3, 1, 6; Liv. 1, 45: ardui, Hor. C. 3, 4, 22.—Hence,
   A Săbīnus, a, um, adj., Sabine: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 4; 3, 1, 6; Cic. Lig. 11, 32; id. Agr. 2, 25, 66; id. Sen. 7, 24; Hor. S. 2, 7, 118 al.: montes, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 9: fana, id. L. L. 6, § 57 Müll.: virgines raptae, id. ib. 6, 3, 57; Cic. Rep. 2, 7, 12; Liv. 1, 9 sq. et saep.: lingua, Varr. L. L. 5, § 66 Müll.: vocabulum, id. ib. 5, § 107 ib.; cf. origo (vocabuli), id. ib. 7, § 28 ib.: ficus, Varr. R. R. 1, 67: salix, Col. 4, 30, 4: oleum, Pall. Mart. 9, 8 et saep.—*
   (b)    Adv.: Săbīnē, in Sabine, in the Sabine tongue, Varr. L. L. 5, § 159 Müll.—
   2    In partic.: Sabina herba, a kind of juniper, the savin: Juniperus Sabina, Linn.; used for incense, Cato, R. R. 70, 1; Plin. 16, 20, 33, § 79; 17, 13, 21, § 98; 24, 11, 61, § 102; Verg. Cul. 402; Prop. 4 (5), 3, 58; Ov. F. 1, 343; 4, 741.—Hence,
   B Substt.
   1    Săbīnus, i, m., a Sabine, Liv. 1, 45; 3, 26.—And as a Roman proper name,
   (a)    A servant of Trebonius, Cic. Fam. 16, 16.—
   (b)    The name of an Augustan poet, a friend of Ovid, Ov. Am. 2, 18, 27; the same perh. also Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 27.—
   (g)    The surname of the jurist Massurius, v. h. v.—
   (d)    A brother of the emperor Vespasian, Suet. Vesp. 1.—Hence, Săbīnĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Sabinus: libri Sabiniani, the books composed by him, Cod. Just. 3, 33, 17; 3, 34, 14 al.—Subst.: Săbīnĭāni, ōrum, m., the followers of Sabinus, the Sabinists, Dig. 24, 1, 11; 41, 1, 11.—
   2    Săbīna, ae, f., a Sabine woman, Prop. 2, 6, 21; 2, 32 (3, 30), 47; Ov. Am. 2, 4, 15; id. A. A. 1, 102.—
   C Săbī-num, i, n.
   a (Sc. vinum.) Sabine wine: vile, Hor. C. 1, 20, 1.—
   b (Sc. praedium.) The estate of Horace in the territory of the Sabines, north of Tibur, described by the poet, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 1-14; cf. Sil. 3, 596.— In plur. (sc. praedia): satis beatus unicis Sabinis, Hor. C. 2, 18, 14.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Săbīnī,⁹ ōrum, m., Sabins [peuple de l’Italie au N.-E. de Rome] : Plin. 3, 108.