people
The Sabines
Sabines
An ancient people of central Italy; the 'Sabine women,' rough and chaste, stand for primitive virtue.
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.8 Sabine women
The rough, chaste women of early Italy, foil to the pleasure-loving women of Augustan Rome.
- The Art of Love §1.4 the seized Sabines
Neighbouring people whose unmarried women Romulus' men carried off at the games to provide Rome with wives.
- The Festivals §1 the Sabines
Neighbors of early Rome; Janus repelled Tatius's Sabines with a sudden gush of hot springs.
- The Festivals §6.5 Cures
The chief town of the Sabines, who established Sancus's worship.
- Cosmetics for the Female Face §2 Sabine women
The Sabines, an ancient people of central Italy; their hard-working matrons are Ovid's image of primitive, unadorned virtue, set against the pampered daughters of the present.