Peucetiann.adj.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey iv. 253 This City [sc. Naples] is..Queene of the Picentines, Hirpines, Lucanians,..Peucetians, Samnites,..and Daunians.

1758 E. Spelman tr. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Rom. Antiq. I. i. 31 Peucetius, therefore..settled there; and, from him, the inhabitants of these places were called Peucetians.

1894 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 9 298 No inscriptions have been found to help identification, except one,..and..it probably bore the offering made by the Tarentines after the defeat of the Peucetians.

1936 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 56 173 To the south, indeed, dwelt the Peucetians, who were far more susceptible to Greek influences.

2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. v. 9/1 But the ‘indigenous’ Daunians, Peucetians and Messapians they found here were also colonizers, migrants from the Balkans and Crete.

a1734 J. Clarke tr. Ovid Metamorphoses (1735) xiv. xi. 430 Venulus leaves the Calydonian kingdom, and the Peucetian bays, and the Messapian fields.

1768 J. Hawkesworth tr. F. de S. de la M. Fénélon Adventures of Telemachus xx. 365 It was expedient to possess themselves of Venusium, a strong town which Adrastus had formerly taken from a neighbouring people, the Peucetian Apulians.

1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. ii. 56 These Arcadian colonies..were very probably fictions invented after the list of the Lycaonids had taken in Œnotrus and Peucetius, the mythical fathers of the Œnotrian and Peucetian tribes.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 July 530/4 The three groups of Apulian vases, Messapian, Peucetian and Daunian.

1991 Independent (Nexis) 27 June 6 Five hundred Etruscan objects are being put on display, along with 300 exhibits representing the Samnite, Peucetian, Messapian, Daunian, Faliscan and Nuragic cultures which flourished in Italy before the rise of Rome.