See Also: Sabine(medicine)
Sabine(dictionary)
Sabine(encyclopedia)
Sabine's gull(dictionary)
Sabine, Sir Edward(encyclopedia)
Sabine River(encyclopedia)
SABINE Credit Union(finance)
SABINE SCHOOL EMPLOYEES Credit Union(finance)

Sabine (sh)




Any member of an ancient Italic tribe located east of the Tiber River.

According to legend, Romulus invited them to a festival and then carried off ("raped") their women to provide wives for his men. The second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, probably a Sabine, is credited with creating a great number of the early Roman religious institutions and practices. Later groups displaced the Sabines from Rome. The Romans conquered them and granted them partial citizenship in 290 BC; they became full citizens in 268.