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en-wikipedia-org-6854		Sabellians - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	557	108	72	Sabellians is a collective ethnonym for a group of Italic peoples or tribes inhabiting central and southern Italy at the time of the rise of Rome.[1] The name was first applied by Niebuhr[2] and encompassed the Sabines, Marsi, Marrucini and Vestini. Pliny in one passage says the Samnites were also called Sabelli,[3] and this is confirmed by Strabo.[4] The term Sabellus is found also in Livy and other Latin writers, as an adjective form for Samnite, though never for the name of the nation;[5] but it is frequently also used, especially by the poets, simply as an equivalent for the adjective Sabine.[6] In the modern usage it is also a synonym for the whole, or only a part, of the different Osco-Umbrian peoples and it is supposed it had effectively been their ethnic endonym from an Old Italic root *sabh-:[7] Latin sab(Sabini, Sabelli, Samnites, Samnium) Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the DGRG	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6854.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6854.txt