Meanings
- historicalAn ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy.
The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him^([Propertius]) a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21.
2007, Basil Dufallo, The Ghosts of the Past, Ohio State University Press, page 952 more examples
That is, Fabius marched to relieve Sutrium, defeated the Etruscans there, crossed the Ciminian wood, defeated another Etruscan army near Perusia, and then made indutiae with Arretium, Cortona, and Perusia.
2005, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, page 455Perusia has the epithet ‘Augusta’ in two inscriptions, and another refers to ‘Perusia Restituta’, which should most naturally restoration after the destruction of 40.¹²⁶ This implies that the city enjoyed Augustus' favour, as Saddington notes;¹²⁷ but that is no reason for largely rejecting the accounts of Imperator Caesar's punishment of Perusia in 40, excepting the fantasy of a massacre of the curial class.
2007, Edward Bispham, From Asculum to Actium, Oxford University Press, page 358
Origin
- LatinPerusia
- EnglishPerusia
Borrowed from Latin Perusia. Doublet of Perugia.
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Perusia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Perusia
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