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  • Of all Italian peoples, the Marsi were the most prosperous and the most numerous.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Another people called Marsi, in Germany, to the south of the Frisii, in the country now called _Paderborne_ and _Munster_.

    A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • The chief divinity of the Marsi was the goddess Angitia.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • These points premised, we go on to say that no craze current amongst learned men has more deeply disturbed the truth of history than the notion that 'Marsi' and 'Peligni,' or other big-boned Italian rustics, ever by choice constituted the general or even the favourite recruiting fund of the Roman republic.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • The Marsi are a spent force, Cinna doesn’t need troops.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Of the three Italian Allied legions, the one sent by the Marsi was the best trained and most soldierly legion of all ten; it was commanded by a twenty-five-year-old Marsic nobleman’s son named Quintus Poppaedius Silo — under supervision by a Roman legate, of course.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Germanicus tried to put a wedge into that alliance by taking up one tribe after the other while Caecina kept the Cherusci from coming to their aid, but that took place over 3 summers and I'm not sure if not the Marsi and Chatti had recovered well enough to gather again into something like a fighting force.

    Early medieval armies: numbers Carla 2010

  • U.S. officials asserted Monday, however, that they were certain that Marsi and Baghdadi had been killed, saying DNA evidence had been used to confirm their identities.

    Two top leaders of the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq are killed in raid Ernesto Londoño 2010

  • Mulle tundub ja võibolla tõesti vaid tundub, et otsekui oleks mulle kusagilt kõrvade vahele jäänud, et selle pildi nimi on «Marslaste mandala» või siis «Marsi mandala».

    Marslaste mandala Ulmeguru 2009

  • When my father led the Marsi and then all the Italian peoples against Rome, transports and war fleets belonged to the state, not to individual commanders.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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