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MAMERTINI
, or " See also:children of See also:Mars," the name taken by a See also:band of Campanian (or Samnite) freebooters who about 289 B.C. seized the See also:Greek See also:colony of Messana at the See also:north-See also:east corner of See also:Sicily, after having been hired by See also:Agathocles to dafand it (Polyb
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See also:Festus 158, See also: 4) . From 282 onwards (B . V . See also:Head, Historia numorum, 136) the See also:legend itself is Graecized (MAMEPTINON, instead of MAAMEPTINOTM) which shows how quickly here, as everywhere, " Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit." On the See also:Roman See also:conquest of Sicily the See also:town secured an See also:independence under treaty (See also:Cicero, Verr . 3 . 6 . 13) . The inhabitants were still called Mamertines in the See also:time of See also:Strabo (vi . 2 . 3) . See further See also:Mommsen, C.I.L. x. sub loc., and the references already given . (R . S . |
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