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Perusia
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Perúsia
English
Etymology
Borrowed from en la Perusia. en Perugia.
Proper noun
en Q1130478en historical en An <<ancient>> Etruscan and later Roman <<city>> which eventually became present-day Perugia, <<c/Italy>>.
en 2005 A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume III, Book IX https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dMISDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA455&dq=%22Perusia%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY4aH-zZb9AhWDdcAKHYEZBQwQ6AF6BAhcEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Perusia%22&f=false 455 w:Oxford University Press That is, Fabius marched to relieve Sutrium, defeated the Etruscans there, crossed the Ciminian wood, defeated another Etruscan army near Perusia, and then made indutiae with Arretium, Cortona, and Perusia.
en 2007 Edward Bispham From Asculum to Actium https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aUYTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA358&dq=%22Perusia%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY4aH-zZb9AhWDdcAKHYEZBQwQ6AF6BAhUEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Perusia%22&f=false 358 w:Oxford University Press Perusia has the epithet ‘Augusta’ in two inscriptions, and another refers to ‘Perusia Restituta’, which should most naturally restoration after the destruction of 40.126 This implies that the city enjoyed Augustus' favour, as Saddington notes;127 but that is no reason for largely rejecting the accounts of Imperator Caesar's punishment of Perusia in 40, excepting the fantasy of a massacre of the curial class.
en 2007 Basil Dufallo The Ghosts of the Past w:Ohio State University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7a1ElTHqjBAC&pg=PT106&dq=%22Perusia%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiY4aH-zZb9AhWDdcAKHYEZBQwQ6AF6BAhhEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Perusia%22&f=false 95 The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him[Propertius] a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21.
Derived terms
en Perusine
en Perusinian
Further reading
Etruscan cities
Perusine War
Anagrams
en aeiprsu Piraeus Piræus raise up spuriae upraise
Latin
Etymology
la Perusia :der ett:- + 1
Pronunciation
Perusia
Proper noun
Perusia<1.loc>
la Perusia Q1130478
Declension
Perusia<1.loc>
Derived terms
la Perusīnī
la Perusīnum
la Perusīnus
References