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形容詞

Numantine (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
   • 1683, James Turner, “Of a Roman Legion, Marshall’d According to Polybius”, in Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War. […], London: […] M[argaret] W[hite] for Richard Chiswell […], →OCLC, page 95:

     He [Polybius] was long after that a great favourite, yea, a Counſellour of that Scipio [Aemilianus] who was ſometimes called Africanus Minor, and ſometimes Numantinus; becauſe he ended the Carthaginian and Numantine War, with the deſtruction of both Cities.

名詞

Numantine (plural Numantines)

1. A native or inhabitant of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
   • 1683, James Turner, “Of Their Arms, Offensive and Defensive, and Their Military Oath”, in Pallas Armata. Military Essayes of the Ancient Grecian, Roman, and Modern Art of War. […], London: […] M[argaret] W[hite] for Richard Chiswell […], →OCLC, page 47:

     Scipio Æmilianus (who deſtroy’d Carthage) made much uſe of Bow-men againſt the Numantines, and without them, if you will believe Vegetius, he thought he could not over-maſter that Valorous Enemy.

   • 1685, Plutarch, “The Life of Tiberius”, in John Warren, transl., The Fourth Volume of Plutarch’s Lives. Translated from the Greek, […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 637:

     And therefore when the Army was already upon their March, he return’d to Numantia, accompanied with only three or four of his intimate Friends, and making his Application to the principal Officers of the Numantines, he earneſtly entreated, that they would return him his Books, leſt his Enemies ſhould thereby take an occaſion to upbraid him, for not being able to give an Account of the Moneys received and disburſed by him.

   • 1766, N[athaniel] Hooke, “Scipio Æmilianus Is Sent into Spain against the Numantines. […]”, in The Roman History, from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth. […], 4th edition, volume VI, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson; G[eorge] Hawkins; and T[homas] Longman, →OCLC, book VI (From the End of the Third Punic War, in the Year of Rome 607, […] to the Death of the Younger Gracchus, in 632, […]), page 128:

     Appian relates a ſtrange tale of one Rhetogenes, a brave Numantine, who, in a dark night, with five friends, as many ſervants, and ſix horſes, by the help of ſome portable bridges, got over the Roman lines; […]

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