Definitions
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- n. See Lombard.
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- n. A Lombard (member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century).
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- n. a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century
Etymologies
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Examples
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Langobard_, i, 21: secunda autem (sc. filia Wacchonis) dicta est
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Maxentius; after the Langobard invasion, the Byzantine garrison remained there till 593.
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Langobard.i. 5) thus describes their savage and wretched state: -- "The Scritobini, or Scritofinni, are not without snow in the midst of summer; and, being little superior in sagacity to the brutes, live upon no other food than the raw flesh of wild animals, the hairy skins of which they use for clothing.
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Langobard.l. ii.tit. lvii. in Codex Lindenbrog.p. 664;) though the example is too recent and partial.
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Langobard. l v c 38,) the son, perhaps, or the grandson, of Baian.] [Footnote 24: Theophylact, l.i. c.
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Langobard.l. ii.c. 14, p. 784) describes the provinces of Italy about the end of the eighth century Venetia non solum in paucis insulis quas nunc Venetias dicimus, constat; sed ejus terminus a
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He places it under the reigns of Basil and Lewis II.; yet the reduction of Beneventum by the Greeks is dated A.D. 891, after the decease of both of those princes.] 12 In the year 663, the same tragedy is described by Paul the Deacon, (de Gestis Langobard. l.
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Langobard.l. iv.c. 44, p. 153, edit Grot.) allows that Arianism still prevailed under the reign of Rotharis, (A.D.
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Constantinople, of the western conquests of the Arabs; and I learn from Paul Warnefrid, deacon of Aquileia (de Gestis Langobard.
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Langobard. l v c 38,) the son, perhaps, or the grandson, of Baian.] 24 Theophylact, l.i. c.
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