Numantine
A native or inhabitant of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
Adjective
- Of or relating to the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
- 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...
Origin
From Latin Numantīnus.
Noun
- A native or inhabitant of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia.
- 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. - 1683, James Turner,...
- 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...
- 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; […] - 1766,...