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Numantine
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English
Etymology
From en la Numantīnus.
Adjective
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Of or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
en 1683 James Turner Of a Roman Legion, Marshall’d According to Polybius Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War.Written in the Years 1670 and 1671. London Printed by Margaret White for Richard Chiswellat the Rose and Crown in S. Paul’s Church-yard. 95 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_pallas-armata-military-_turner-sir-james_1683/page/95/mode/1up 54564449 He Polybius was long after that a great favourite, yea, a Counſellour of that Scipio Aemilianus who was ſometimes called Africanus Minor, and ſometimes Numantinus; becauſe he ended the Carthaginian and Numantine War, with the deſtruction of both Cities.
Noun
A native or inhabitant of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
en 1683 James Turner Of Their Arms, Offensive and Defensive, and Their Military Oath Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War.Written in the Years 1670 and 1671. London Printed by Margaret White for Richard Chiswellat the Rose and Crown in S. Paul’s Church-yard. 47 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_pallas-armata-military-_turner-sir-james_1683/page/47/mode/1up 54564449 Scipio Æmilianus (who deſtroy’d Carthage) made much uſe of Bow-men againſt the Numantines, and without them, if you will believe Vegetius, he thought he could not over-maſter that Valorous Enemy.
IV 637 And therefore when the Army was already upon their March, he return’d to Numantia, accompanied with only three or four of his intimate Friends, and making his Application to the principal Officers of the Numantines, he earneſtly entreated, that they would return him his Books, leſt his Enemies ſhould thereby take an occaſion to upbraid him, for not being able to give an Account of the Moneys received and disburſed by him.
en 1766 Nathaniel Hooke Scipio Æmilianus Is Sent into Spain against the Numantines.His Care to Discipline His Soldiers during a Whole Year: After Which, with an Army of 60,000 Men, He, in Six Months Time, Reduces a Handful of Numantines to the Utmost Distress; and, in Conclusion, Makes Himself Master of the Ground on Which Their City Had Stood. The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth.Illustrated with Maps and Other Plates. 4th VI London Printed for Jacob and Richard Tonson; George Hawkins; and Thomas Longman book VI (From the End of the Third Punic War, in the Year of Rome 607, when Carthage Was Destroyed, and the Roman Power Became Irresistible, to the Death of the Younger Gracchus, in 632,the True Date of the Destruction of Roman Liberty.) 128 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-roman-history-from-_hooke-nathaniel-histor_1766_6/page/128/mode/1up 8506813 Appian relates a ſtrange tale of one Rhetogenes, a brave Numantine, who, in a dark night, with five friends, as many ſervants, and ſix horſes, by the help of ſome portable bridges, got over the Roman lines;
Translations
native or inhabitant of Numantia
Greek: el Νομαντίνος
Ancient Greek: grc Νομᾰντῖνος
Latin: la Numantīnus
Anagrams
en aeimnnntu Muntenian