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Salentini

Salentini · m

A people of Calabria

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Where it lives

What it meant

Sālentīni — Lewis & Short

Sālentīni (Sall-), ōrum, m.

I A people of Calabria, on the south-eastern extremity of Italy, Mel. 2, 4, 2; Plin. 3, 5, 10, § 75; Liv. 9, 42; 25, 1.—Also used to designate the country of the Salentines: in Salentinis aut in Bruttiis, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46, 133; so, in Salentinis, Varr. R. R. 2, 3 fin.; Liv. 10, 2.—Hence,
II Sālentīnus, a, um, adj., Salentine: campi, Mel. 2, 4, 7; Verg. A. 3, 400: litora, Mel. 2, 4, 7: promontorium, the south-eastern point of Italy, id. 2, 4, 8; Plin. 3, 23, 26, § 145; Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv. Verg. 1. 1.: Neretum, Ov. M. 15, 51: olea, Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 24, 1: cohortes, Sil. 8, 575.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.