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Aborigines

Aborigines · m

the primeval Romans

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

ăbŏrīgĭnes — Lewis & Short

ăbŏrīgĭnes, um, m.ab-origo,

I the primeval Romans, the Aborigines, the nation which, previous to historical record, descended from the Apennines, and, advancing from Carseoli and Reate into the plain, drove out the Siculi; the ancestors of the Romans, Cato ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 6; Varr. L. L. 5, § 53 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 2, 3; Sall. C. 6; Liv. 1, 1.

I Used as an appellative, original inhabitants, Plin. 4, 21, 36, § 120: Indigenae sunt inde ... geniti, quos vocant aborigines Latini, Graeci au)to/xqonas, Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 328.—

II Hence, ăbŏrīgĭnĕus, a, um, adj., aboriginal: sacellum, Ter. Maur. p. 2425 P.

In the wild

Aboriginumque Cicero, De Republica 2.5
Aboriginesque Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.1.1.5
Aboriginesque Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p5
aborigines Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.22.p4

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