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VESTINI , an See also:

ancient See also:Sabine tribe which occupied the eastern and See also:northern See also:bank of the Aternus in central See also:Italy, entered into the See also:Roman See also:alliance, retaining its own See also:independence, in 304 B.C., and issuing coins of its own in the following See also:century. A northerly See also:section See also:round See also:Amiternum near the passes into Sabine See also:country probably received the Caerite See also:franchise soon after. In spite of this, and of the See also:influence of See also:Hadria, a Latin See also:colony founded about 290 B.C. (See also:Livy, Epit. xi.), the See also:local See also:dialect, which belongs to the See also:north Oscan See also:group, survived certainly to the See also:middle of the 2nd century B.e. (see the See also:inscriptions cited below) and probably until the Social See also:War. The See also:oldest Latin inscriptions of the See also:district are C.I.L. ix. 3521, from Furfo with Sullan See also:alphabet, and 3574, " litteris antiquissimis," but with couraverunt, a See also:form which, as inter-mediate between See also:coir- or coo.- and cur-, cannot be earlier than 100 B.C. (see LATIN See also:LANGUAGE). The latter inscription contains also the forms magist[rles (nom. pl.) and ueci (gen. sing.), which show that the Latin first spoken by the Vestini was not that of See also:Rome, but that of their neighbours the See also:Marsi and See also:Aequi (qq.v.). The inscription of Scoppito shows that at the See also:time at which it was written the upper Aternus valley must be counted Vestine, not Sabine, in point of dialect. See further See also:PAELIGNI and See also:SABINI, and for the inscriptions and further details, R. S.

See also:

Conway, The See also:Italic Dialects, pp. 258 if., on which this See also:article is based. (R. S.

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