Picentinen.adj.

1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques ii. i. 68 The Pycentines, the Ferentines, the Hirpins, Pompeians, Venusines,..and others, receiued by the people of Rome, as Cittizens in seuerall Tribes.

1619 tr. L. J. Florus Rom. Hist. i. xix. 94 Hereupon they conquer'd the Picentines [L. Picentes], and their chiefe citie Asculum.

1654 S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia i. 22 The ancient Inhabiters of this Province were called the Picentini.

1710 tr. P. Bayle Hist. & Crit. Dict. II. 842/1 Capistran being a Picentine born, his Italian had gain'd him the Admiration of his own Country, but was of no service to him in Hungary.

1727 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Many Memorable Things I. 138 And so doth Martial jeer a certain Picentine, who wire-drew his benum'd Verses to a troublesome Length.

1831 C. Thirlwall & J. C. Hare tr. B. G. Niebuhr Hist. Rome (1844) I. 72 The ancient Sabines and Picentines took no interest in the affairs of the rest.

1863 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome III. iv. vii. 228 The Latin could remind the Picentine that they were both in like manner ‘subject to the fasces’.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 385/1 The next agrarian law we hear of was a more special measure dealing with lands conquered from the Senones and Picentines.

1974 E. S. Gruen Last Generation Rom. Republic iii. 110 The trustworthy Picentine L. Afranius.

2000 T. C. Brennan Praetorship in Rom. Republic I. 332 Like the Picentines in central Italy, the Lucanians and Bruttii were debarred from military service.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. iii. v. 60 From Surrentum, to the river Silarus, the Picentine countrey [L. ager Picentinus] lay for the space of 30 miles.

1654 S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia i. 22 Arechi the second, 14th Duke of Benevento, in the year 755,..subdued by force of Arms the Picentine people.

1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 105 Bruise in a Mortar Parsley Seed, dry'd Peneryal,..Raisons ston'd, Honey,..Oyl and Wine, put them into a Cacabulum, three Crusts of Pycentine Bread, the Flesh of a Pullet,..pour a Soup over it, garnish it with Snow.

1749 tr. Plutarch Lives V. 59 Crassus marched, and encamped in the Picentine Country [Gk. τῆς Πικηνίδος], where he waited for Spartacus, who was to pass through those Parts.

1851 W. Smith New Classical Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr., Mythol. & Geogr. (N.Y. ed.) 510/1 When the latter [sc. Catiline] left the city to make war upon the republic, Metellus had the charge of the Picentine and Seconian districts.

1888 J. Wright tr. K. Brugmann Elem. Compar. Gram. Indo-Germanic Lang. I. 9 Of the Volscian, Picentine, Sabine, Aequiculan, Vestinian, Marsian, Pelignian and Marrucinian dialects we have only very scanty remains.

1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 312 The new foundation was called into existence by the..‘civilization’ (in the literal sense) of the indigenous population, as when..the Romans organized..a Picentine village into a forum or conciliabulum.

1958 B. Flower & E. Rosenbaum Rom. Cookery Bk. iv. 93 Picentine bread. According to Pliny..this bread—invented by the people of Picenum—was made of spelt-grits. The spelt-grits were left to soak for nine days, and on the tenth day were made into dough by mixing them with raisin juice. The dough was put into earthenware pots and baked hard in the oven.

1999 M. Torelli Tota Italia iii. 82 The triumphal climate of the victory over Hannibal and the aversion of the Picentine revolt.