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See also:PRAETUTTII (also called IIpacrerrioi) , a tribe of See also:ancient See also:Italy inhabiting the See also:south of See also:Picenum . Their territory See also:lay between the See also:rivers Vomanum and Tessinnus (See also:Pliny iii . ยง 110), and therefore included Castrum Novum, Interamnia and the Truentus, as well as probably the See also:original of See also:Hadria . From this name was derived the See also:medieval See also:form A prutium (quoted by See also:Kiepert in his Alte Geographic), and hence the See also:modern Abruzzo (more commonly in the plural gli Abruzzi), denoting the whole central See also:mountain See also:land of Italy . We have no See also:evidence, except their name, and that throws no See also:light on their See also:language, for separating them from the other inhabitants of Picenum (q.v.) . (R . S . |
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