Paeligniann.adj.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. viii. 302 Every one of them, namely, the Marsians, the Pelignians and Marucines, were in feats of armes comparable and egall to the Samnites.

1853 C. Merivale Fall Rom. Republic iii. 77 The Samnites and Pelignians reclaimed 4,000 of their own countrymen who had thus established themselves in the Latin town of Fregellæ.

1895 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 16 461 Picentines, Marsians, Pelignians, Marrucinians, Vestinians, Samnites, Apulians and Lucanians leagued together against Rome.

1939 R. Syme Roman Revol. xiv. 193 The fierce Marsians and Paelignians had long and bitter memories.

1996 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 86 174 Subsequently these houses were remodelled as fullonicae, for wool-working; Coarelli links this development to the arrival of numerous Samnites and Paelignians in the city in the 180s b.c.

1897 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 8 120 In Paelignian and Umbrian the same formation took a somewhat different shape,—in the nominative -aes,—and gave a number of Latin names in -aeus.

1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 24 The Oscan-Umbrian group..includes also the minor dialects of central Italy, as Paelignian, Marrucinian, [etc.].

1995 E. Dench From Barbarians to New Men 198 The so-called ‘minor dialects’ (e.g. Marrucine, Vestine, Paelignian).

1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War ix. 246 Shall I endure thee wear My Brother's Spoils before my Face? or bear The Arms of a Pelignian House away, While I survive, or, guilty, see the Day?

1684 J. Harington tr. Horace Odes & Epodon Epod. xviii. 114 Thou see'st Pelignian Hags, with vain design, Some nimbler Drug for killing to compound; Since slower Fates, then wisht, shall thee confound.

1767 C. Smart tr. Horace Epodes xvi, in tr. Horace Wks. (new ed.) II. 230 What profit, that Pelignian dames Are richer from my chymic flames; And that quick poison I contrive, If thou'rt against my wish alive?

1862 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome II. xi. 332 When..the Samnites and Pælignians applied to the senate for a reduction of their contingents, their request was based on the ground that during recent years 4000 Samnite and Pælignian families had migrated to the Latin colony of Fregellæ.

1895 J. W. Mackail Lat. Lit. 154 Among others may be specially instanced, as masterpieces of execution,..the desperate heroism of the Pelignian cohort, and the final and terrible destruction of the Macedonian phalanx.

1967 E. T. Salmon Samnium & Samnites iv. 177 Ovid..had his own Paelignian homeland in mind.

1995 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 97 47 A similar blessing forms the closing line of a Paelignian inscription:..May gracious Venus give you riches.