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FRENTANI , one of the See also: ancient Samnite tribes which formed an See also:independent community on the See also:east See also:coast of See also:Italy. They entered the See also:Roman See also:alliance after their See also:capital, Frentrum, was taken by the See also:Romans in 305 or 304 B.C. (See also:Livy ix. 16. 45). This See also:town either changed its name or perished some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time after the See also:middle of the 3rd See also:century B.C., when it was issuing coins of its own with an Oscan See also:legend. The town Larinum, which belonged to the same See also:people (See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. 103), became latinized before 200 B.C., as its coins of that See also:epoch See also:bear a legend—LARINOR(VM)—which cannot reasonably be treated as any-thing but Latin. Several Oscan See also:inscriptions survive from the neighbourhood of See also:Vasto (anc. Histonium), which was in the Frentane See also:area.
On the forms of the name, and for further details see R.S.See also:Conway, See also:Italic Dialects, p. 206 ff and p. 212: for the coins id. No. 195-196.
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