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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.
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Further east, Oscan speakersthe Paeligni, Vestini, and Marruciniheld sway; to the southeast, along the Adriatic coast, the Oscan-speaking Frentani dominated.
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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.
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Male tombs reveal a change in the style of fighting; the Vestini now rode horseback and carried long iron knives.
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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.
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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
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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
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"No one in Rome will believe it!" shouted Titus Lafrenius of the Vestini.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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Servius Sulpicius Galba has cleaned up most of the Marrucini, Marsi and Vestini.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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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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