Peligni
People / regional collective
Civil War 1.15 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Domitius by himself had collected and brought from Alba about twenty cohorts, consisting of Marsi and Peligni, drawn from the neighbouring districts.”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 1.15
Caesar
… Domitius by himself had collected and brought from Alba about twenty cohorts, consisting of Marsi and Peligni, drawn from the neighbouring districts.
Civil War 1.18
Caesar
Meanwhile word is brought to Caesar that the inhabitants of Sulmo, a town seven miles distant from Corfinium, are ready to carry out his wishes, but are prevented by the senator Q. Lucretius and by Attius the Pelignian, who were in occupation of the town with a garrison of seven cohorts. …
Civil War 2.29
Caesar
… It was a civil war, they said; the men were of a class which was permitted to do freely what it liked and to follow its bent; the legions were those which a little while before had been in the hands of their foes, for the custom of constantly offering gifts had depreciated even the bounty of Caesar; the municipal communities, too, were attached to different sides, for men came equally from the Marsi and the Peligni, as, for instance, those who had deserted the night before. …
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Civil War 1.15 · Civil War 1.18 · Civil War 2.29 · Civil War 2.35