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Aborigines
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Lewis Short
(adjective) : Abŏrīgĭnes, um, m.ab-origo
* The primeval Romans, the Aborigines, the nation which, previous to historical record, descended from the Apennines, and, advancing from Carseoli and Reate into the plain, drove out the Siculi; the ancestors of the Romans, Cato ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 6; Varr. L. L. 5, § 53 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 2, 3; Sall. C. 6; Liv. 1, 1.
* Used as an appellative, original inhabitants, Plin. 4, 21, 36, § 120: Indigenae sunt inde ... geniti, quos vocant aborigines Latini, Graeci αὐτόχθονας, Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 328.
* Hence, ăbŏrīgĭnĕus, a, um, , aboriginal: sacellum,Ter. Maur. p. 2425 P.
* The primeval Romans, the Aborigines, the nation which, previous to historical record, descended from the Apennines, and, advancing from Carseoli and Reate into the plain, drove out the Siculi; the ancestors of the Romans, Cato ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 6; Varr. L. L. 5, § 53 Müll.; Cic. Rep. 2, 3; Sall. C. 6; Liv. 1, 1.
* Used as an appellative, original inhabitants, Plin. 4, 21, 36, § 120: Indigenae sunt inde ... geniti, quos vocant aborigines Latini, Graeci αὐτόχθονας, Serv. ad Verg. A. 8, 328.
* Hence, ăbŏrīgĭnĕus, a, um, , aboriginal: sacellum,Ter. Maur. p. 2425 P.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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aborigines
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