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  • For Fabius, the Consul, having defeated them near Sutrium, and planning afterwards to pass with the army through the Ciminian forest and go to Tuscany, not only did not counsel with the Senate, but did not even give them any notice, even though war was to be waged in a new unknown, and dangerous country.

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  • Quintus Fabius went to the rescue, raised the siege, drove the Etruscans into the Ciminian forests, and there completely defeated them.

    Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

  • Fat are the stags that champ the boughs of the Ciminian hill;

    The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • No hunter tracks the stag's green path up the Ciminian hill;

    The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • As late as the fourth century before our era Rome was divided from central Etruria by the dreaded Ciminian forest, which Livy compares to the woods of Germany.

    Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 1. Tree-spirits 1922

  • As late as the fourth century before our era Rome was divided from central Etruria by the dreaded Ciminian forest, which Livy compares to the woods of Germany.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Ciminian forest to attack the Etruscans in Etruscan territory; wherefore, Livy calls these towns "claustra Etruriæ"; in 382, they became Latin colonies.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Fine old timber, part of that mysterious Ciminian forest which still covers a large tract, from within whose ample shade one looks downhill towards the distant Orte across a broiling stretch of country.

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • For the most part without arms, and with a large proportion of wounded, the fugitives entered the Ciminian forest.

    The History of Rome, Vol. II 1905

  • By dawn on the following day he was holding the nearest heights of the Ciminian range, and after surveying the rich fields of Etruria he sent out parties to forage.

    The History of Rome, Vol. II 1905

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