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What does Samnium mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) A region of southern Italy in Roman times
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Curius marched into Samnium, and his colleague into Lucania.
The territory of Samnium was not even opened up for settlement, but left as a lair for wild beasts.
He fled into Samnium, but was followed there by Sulla's soldiers, taken prisoner and brought back to Rome.
But more direful than all this was the punishment which fell upon Etruria and Samnium.
Oscan is believed to have been spoken in Samnium, Campania, Lucania and Abruzzo in southern Italy.
Two armies, penetrating into Samnium by way of Apulia and Campania, re-established the old frontiers.

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