Marsian

1. not comparableOf or relating to the Marsi.

   Caso Cantovios Aprufclanos [set up] pillars at the Esalican boundary in the city Casontonia; and his allies brought a sacred gift to Angitia on behalf of Marsian legions.

   1940, E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, published 1959, page 59

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   To this signal honour many warriors aspired. Among these was distinguished the valiant Aulon, a descendant of Cacus, who, instead of a sword or javelin, carried an axe of such an enormous magnitude, that no one among the Marsi, except himself, could wield; Pentheus also, who was equally active in the practice of war, and who numbered among his ancestors the unfortunate Marsias, the father of the Marsian people; […]

   1824, Belisarius, by Marmontel; and Numa Pompilius, by Florian. With a Biographical Introduction., London, page 223

   The Marsi attracted some notice. A term from this region was consiligo: Col. 6.5.3 praesens etiam remedium cognouimus radiculae, quam pastores consiliginem uocant: ea Marsis montibusplurima nascitur (‘an efficacious remedy we have also found to consist of the root which shepherds call consiligo. This grows in abundance in the Marsian mountains’),[…].

   2007, J. N. Adams, The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC–AD 600, Cambridge University Press, page 214

plural Marsians

1. Any member of the Marsi.

1. The extinct (since ca. 150 BC) Osco-Umbrian language of the Marsi, native to Marruvium.

   Caso Cantovios and allies. Bronze plate found in the Fucine Lake. Dialect-Latin or mixed Marsian and Latin.

   1940, E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, published 1959, page 59

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   Though much of what remains of Marsian is of doubtful status and meaning, the following inscription (plate 3), from Antinum, is relatively unambiguous.

   1999, Philip Baldi, The Foundations of Latin (Trends in Linguistics; Studies and Monographs 117), Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 128

   There is little evidence for Marsian, the language of the Marsi, a people who occupied the area south of the Fucine Lake. Marsian is mainly attested in a few short inscriptions from the third and second centuries bc: VM 3–7.

   2004, Jane Stuart-Smith, Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic, Oxford University Press, page 125