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MARRUCINI

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 759 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARRUCINI , an See also:

ancient tribe which occupied a small See also:strip of territory See also:round about Teate (mod. See also:Chieti), on the See also:east See also:coast of See also:Italy. It is first mentioned in See also:history as a member of a confederacy with which the See also:Romans came into conflict in the second Samnite See also:War, 325 B.C., and it entered the See also:Roman See also:Alliance as a See also:separate unit at the end of that war (see further See also:PAELIGNI). We know something of the See also:language of the Marrucini from an inscription known as the " See also:Bronze of Rapino," which belongs to about the See also:middle of the 3rd See also:century B.c. It is written in Latin See also:alphabet, but in a See also:dialect which belongs to the See also:North Oscan See also:group (see PAELIGNI). The name of the See also:city or tribe which it gives us is tout¢ marouca, and it mentions also a citadel with the epithet tarincris. Several of its linguistic features, both in vocabulary and in syntax, are of considerable See also:interest to the student of Latin or See also:Italic See also:grammar (e.g. the use of the subjunctive, without any See also:conjunction, to See also:express purpose, a clause prescribing a See also:sacrifice to See also:Ceres being followed immediately by pacr si ut propitia sit). The earliest Latin See also:inscriptions are of Ciceronian date. The See also:form of the name is of considerable interest, as it shows the suffix -NO- superimposed upon the suffix -CO-, a See also:change which probably indicates some See also:conquest of an earlier tribe by the invading Safini (or See also:Sabini, q.v.). For further details as to Marrucine inscriptions and See also:place-names see R. S. See also:Conway, The Italic Dialects, p.

253 seq. (R. S.

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