Perusia

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Borrowed from Latin Perusia. Doublet of Perugia.

Perusia

2. (historical) An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy.
   • 2005, A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume III, Book IX, Oxford University Press, page 455:

     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.

   • 2007, Edward Bispham, From Asculum to Actium, Oxford University Press, page 358:

     Perusia 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, Basil Dufallo, The Ghosts of the Past, Ohio State University Press, page 95:

     The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21.

• Perusine
• Perusinian

• Etruscan cities on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Perusine War on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Piraeus, Piræus, raise up, spuriae, upraise

From Etruscan.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈru.si.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈru.si.a/,

Perusia f sg (genitive Perusiae); first declension

1. (historical) Perusia (An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Perusīnī
• Perusīnum
• Perusīnus

• “Perusia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Perusia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.