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Aesernia

Aesernia · f

a town in Samnium

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Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 16s 1 · 125/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
Letters to Atticus 2 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

Aesernĭa — Lewis & Short

Aesernĭa (Es-), ae, f.,

I a town in Samnium, on the river Vulturnus, now Isernia, Cic. Att. 8, 11, D, § 2; Vell. 1, 14; Liv. Epit. 72, 73 al.—Hence, Aesernīnus, a, um, adj. pertaining to or a native of, Æsernia: ager, Liv. 10, 31: turma, id. 44, 40.—Also a surname of M. Marcellus, who was taken prisoner there by the Samnites, Liv. Epit. 73; Plin. 12, 1, 5, § 12.—Aesernīni, ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Æsernia, Liv. 27, 10. —Aeserninus was also the name of a renowned gladiator; hence the proverb: Aeserninus cum Pacidiano, one champion against another, when two equally great men are compared together or engaged in mutual conflict, Lucil. ap. Non. 393, 28; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 4; id. Opt. Gen. Orat. 6 (cf.: cum Bitho Bacchius, Hor. S. 1, 7, 20).

In the wild

Aesernia Silius Italicus, Punica 8.566
Aesernia Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.11D.2
Aesernia Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 16s 1
Aeserniae Cicero, Letters to Atticus 8.11D.2
Aesernia Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 2.6.18.11
Aesernia Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.16s

Where it came from

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