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  • There are quite a few I didn't like, but it's probably just my personal taste: Vallevo, Vestini, to name a couple.

    Exploring the Wines of Abruzzo 2008

  • Further east, Oscan speakers—the Paeligni, Vestini, and Marrucini—held sway; to the southeast, along the Adriatic coast, the Oscan-speaking Frentani dominated.

    b. The Peoples of Italy 2001

  • Judging from their weapons, the Vestini appear to have fought on foot, first throwing their lances, then using daggers and iron clubs for hand-to-hand combat.

    Bedding Down for Eternity 2000

  • Male tombs reveal a change in the style of fighting; the Vestini now rode horseback and carried long iron knives.

    Bedding Down for Eternity 2000

  • Investigations at the Fossa necropolis, which extends over a little more than an acre, have so far yielded 531 tombs belonging to a pre-Roman people known as the Vestini.

    Bedding Down for Eternity 2000

  • Picentines of the south, Vestini, Marrucini, Frentani, all peoples who had struggled to free the Italian Allied states from their long subjection to Rome.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • He would proceed up the Adriatic littoral through regions which had fought bitterly against Roman control of the peninsula - Marrucini, Vestini, Frentani, southern Picentines.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • "No one in Rome will believe it!" shouted Titus Lafrenius of the Vestini.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • Servius Sulpicius Galba has cleaned up most of the Marrucini, Marsi and Vestini.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • There in Corfinium they met only days after the death of Drusus, the leaders of eight Italian nations, and many of their followers — the Marsi, the Samnites, the Marrucini, the Vestini, the Paeligni, the Frentani, the Picentes, and the Hirpini.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

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