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Histri

Histri · m

the people of Istria

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Where it lives

Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · 0.13/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Histri — Lewis & Short

Histri (less correctly Istri), ōrum, m.,

I the people of Istria, Istrians, a barbarous Illyrian tribe subdued by the Romans B. C. 177: principes Histrorum, Liv. 41, 11; Plin. 3, 19, 23, § 129: Histrorum gentem originem a Colchis ducere, Just. 32, 3, 13: per Histros Hister emittitur, Mel. 2, 3 fin. —Hence, Histria (Istria), ae, f., a country on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, extending from Trieste to the Sinus Flanaticus: Histria ut peninsula excurrit, Plin. 3, 19, 23, § 129; Liv. 39, 55.—Derivv.

A Histriāni (Ist-), ōrum, m., the people of Istria, Just. 9, 2, 1.—

B Histrĭ-cus (Ist-), a, um, adj., Istrian, of Istria: bellum, Liv. 39, 55; 41, 1; 11: ostrea, Plin. 32, 6, 21, § 62.—

C Histrus, a, um, adj., Istrian: testa, Mart. 12, 64, 2.

In the wild

Histros Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 p16
Histros Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.7.2
Histros Plautus, Menaechmi 2.1
Histros Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.41s
Istrum Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.7.4
Histros Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 p15

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