The 19th-century scholar Edward Greswell sought to connect the nine novensiles of the Sabines to the nundinal cycle, the eight-day " week " of the Roman calendar that Roman inclusive counting reckoned as nine days.

He convinced the Sabines that they ought to help restore the kings.

* Lucius Mamilius, perhaps the grandson of Octavius, was dictator of Tusculum in 460 BC, and sent an army to help recover the Capitol from a force of Sabines during a revolt.

In Italy, they founded the Spartan colony of Foronia ( near the Pomentine plains ) and some from that colony settled among the Sabines.

The pretexts for the war were, on the Roman side, that a number of Roman merchants had been seized by the Sabines at a market near the temple of Feronia, and on the Sabine side, that some of the Sabines were being detained at Rome.

After some minor conflicts in which Rome was victorious, the Sabines took a vote and resolved on an invasion of the city of Rome ( with perhaps the previous example in memory ).

If the conclusions suggested under Sabini may be accepted as sound we should expect to find the Volsci speaking a language similar to that of the Ligures, whose fondness for the suffix-sco-has been noticed, and identical with that spoken by the plebeians of Rome, and that this branch of Indo-European was among those that preserved the original Indo-European Velars from the labialization that befell them in the speech of the Samnites, The language of the inscription of Velitrae offers at first sight a difficulty from this point of view, in the conversion it shows of q to p, but the ethnicon of Velitrae is Veliternus, and the people are called on the inscription itself Velestrom ( genitive plural ); so nothing prevents assuming there was a settlement of Sabines among the Volscian hills, with their language, to some extent, ( e. g., in the diphthongs and palatals ) corrupted by the speech around them, just as was the case with the Sabine language of the Iguvini, whose very name became Iguvinates, the suffix-ti-being much more frequent among the-co-tribes than among the Sabines.

Its residents were removed to settle on the Aventine Hill in Rome as new citizens, following the Roman traditions from wars with the Sabines and Albans.

His military ability was tested by an attack from the Sabines.

The Sabines received auxiliaries from five Etruscan cities.

As his last great act he began the construction of a temple in honour of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, partially funded by plunder seized from the Sabines.

The word is from Old French tribu, in turn from Latin tribus, referring to the original tripartite ethnic division of the Roman state: Ramnes ( Ramnenses ), Tities ( Titienses ), and Luceres, corresponding, according to Varro, to the Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans respectively.

He was of the gens Claudia, who were patricians descended from the Sabines taken into the early Roman state.

The new city grew rapidly, swelled by landless refugees ; as most were unmarried, Romulus arranged the abduction of women from the neighboring Sabines.

Titus Tatius was supposed to have imported the cult of Luna to Rome from the Sabines.

The name also appears on a dedicatory cippus from Civita d ' Antino, in the Umbrian Iguvine Tablets, and in inscriptions in the territories of the Paeligni, Vestini, and Sabines.

Zenodotus of Troezen claimed that the Sabines were originally Umbrians that changed their name after being driven from the Reatine territory by the Pelasgians.

The people who lived in those places were of the Hernici, migrated-as it seems-from the Aniene valley and descendant from the Marsi ( Marsians ) ( or from the Sabines ), at least according to the ethnical term deriving from the Marsian herna (" stone "), that is: " Those who live on the stony hills ".

Similarly his tutelage extends to the covered passages named iani and foremost to the gates of the city, including the cultic gate called the Argiletum, named Ianus Geminus or Porta Ianualis from which he protects Rome against the Sabines.

Janus would have also effected the miracle of turning the waters of the spring at the foot of the Viminal from cold to scorching hot in order to fend off the assault of the Sabines of king Titus Tatius, come to avenge the kidnapping of their daughters by the Romans.

Amiternum, a traditional cradle of the Sabines, is an ancient Sabine prefecture in the Abruzzo region of modern Italy at 9 km from L ' Aquila.

This theory is supported by Suetonius, who writes that Claudius came ex Regillis oppido Sabinorum ; that is, " from Regillum, a town of the Sabines.

Even if many the followers of Romulus and Remus were Latins from the ancient city of Alba Longa, many may also have been Sabines already living in the surrounding countryside.

The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for " salt ", since it was the route by which the Sabines came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, one of many ancient salt roads in Europe.

Sources derive the term from Cures, the capital of the Sabines, who were assimilated by the Romans early on in their traditional ethnogenesis.

Tullus waged war against Alba Longa, Fidenae and Veii and the Sabines.

Tullus also fought successful wars against Fidenae and Veii and against the Sabines.

To avenge this abduction, the Sabines attacked Rome, although not immediately — since Hersilia, the daughter of Tatius, the leader of the Sabines, had been married to Romulus, the Roman leader, and then had two children by him in the interim.

The Romans base themselves on the Palatine and the Sabines on the Quirinal, with Romulus and Tatius as joint kings and the Comitium as the common centre of government and culture.

After a failed round of negotiations, war was declared against the Sabines, but as both sides were reluctant to come to blows, no hostilities ensued.

The story for the painting is as follows: " The Romans have abducted the daughters of their neighbors, the Sabines.

These Sabines had erected altars in the honour of their god Quirinus ( naming the hill by this god ).

At the suggestion of his grandfather Numitor, Romulus holds a solemn festival in honor of Neptune ( according to another tradition the festival was held in honor of the God Consus ) and invites the neighboring Sabines and Latins to attend ; they arrive en masse, along with their daughters.

Once inside, the Sabines crush her to death under a pile of their shields.

The Sabines withdrew to their camp, allowing the Romans time to levy additional troops.

Many of the Sabines were unable to escape with their lives, both because of the pursuit of the cavalry and also because of the destruction of the bridge.

Some of the fleeing Sabines drowned in the Anio ; their arms drifted down the river into the Tiber and past Rome, and the Romans recognised this as a sign of victory even before word of the outcome of the battle arrived in the city.

The moon suddenly rising, the Roman troops and the piles of slain were visible to the Sabines, whose reaction was to drop their weapons and run.

So does the legend of their foundation itself: the peace-loving king Numa instituted the Salii of Mars Gradivus, foreseeing the future wars of the Romans while the warmonger king Tullus, in a battle during a longstanding war with the Sabines, swore to found a second group of Salii should he obtain victory.

According to early Roman histories, when the Sabine ruler Titus Tatius attacked Rome after the Rape of the Sabines ( 8th century BC ), the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill, betrayed the Romans by opening the city gates for the Sabines in return for ' what they bore on their arms.

Instead, the Sabines crushed her to death with their shields, and her body was buried in the rock that now bears her name.

The Sabines sued for peace, and surrendered a large portion of their land.

Most of the people of Italy spoke languages belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family ; the three major groups within the Italian Peninsula were the Latin branch, including the tribes of the Latini ( Latins ), who formed the core of the early Roman populace, and their neighbors, the Falisci and Hernici ; and the Sabellian branch, including the Sabines, who also contributed to early Roman culture, as well as the Samnites, Umbrian culture of the Padus ( Po ) Valley, the rustic Picentes of the Adriatic coast, and the Volsci, neighbors of the early Romans, and many other peoples of central and southern Italy.

As the city was bereft of women, legend says that the Latins invited the Sabines to a festival and stole their unmarried maidens, leading to the integration of the Latins and the Sabines.

However, other scholars are unsatisfied with their reasoning, and point out that the legend associating the Fabii with Romulus and Remus would place them at Rome before the incorporation of the Sabines into the nascent Roman state.

They were also connected originally with the Sabine priesthood of Sodales Titii who were probably originally their counterpart among the Sabines.

When the community was assembled and in a state of drunken festivity, Romulus's men abducted the daughters of the Sabines to become their brides ( see " The Rape of the Sabine Women ").

Greedy for gold, she had meant their bracelets, but instead the Sabines threw their shields — carried on the left arm — upon her, crushing her to death.