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- noun Plural form of
Oscan .
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Examples
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Even if it can be argued that the Oscans were "far from Etruscan influence", they were hardly far from Latin influence.
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Through those hills runs the Titanic grotto of Posilippo, which leads to that historic land beyond -- the land of the Cumaeans and Oscans; or, still more, the land of the luxurious Romans of the empire; where
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And, in fact, Mamurius Veturius appears to have been driven away to the land of the Oscans, the enemies of Rome.
Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity. § 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome
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And, in fact, Mamurius Veturius appears to have been driven away to the land of the Oscans, the enemies of Rome.
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Oscans, Latins, etc. The parent ancestral speech of the German tribes about four to five thousand years ago was probably closely approximated in syntax, and in the form and pronunciation of words, to the other progenitors of European Aryan languages, especially the
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Sabellians and Oscans, Samnites and Volscians and Aequians and dear knows what all: -- open your Roman Histories, and in each one of the host of nation-names you find there, you may probably see the relic of some kingdom once great and flourishing north or south of the Alps; -- just as you can in the Serbians, Roumanians,
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Strabo, Pompeii was first occupied by the Oscans, subsequently by the
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In Asia Minor the Greek mingled with the Semite, who had the heritage of centuries of culture; and in Italy with the Umbrians, Oscans, and Etruscans, who, little as we know of their antecedents, have left us monuments to testify to their high development.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
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The Oscans were one of the old non-Latin tribes of Italy.
The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor
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And, in fact, Mamurius Veturius appears to have been driven away to the land of the Oscans, the enemies of Rome.
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