Editing Sabines (section)

===Origin and early history===
The Sabines settled in Sabinum, around the tenth century BC, founding the cities of [[Rieti|Reate]], [[Trebula Mutusca|Trebula Mutuesca]] and [[Cures, Sabinum|Cures Sabini.]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-02-20|title=I Sabini e l'agricoltura: origine, storia, leggende, pastorizia, coltivazioni|url=https://antropocene.it/2021/02/20/i-sabini-e-lagricoltura/|access-date=2021-12-10|website=Un Mondo Ecosostenibile|language=it-IT|author1=Ecosostenibile}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Riposati|first=Benedetto|title=Convegno di studio: Preistoria, storia e civiltà dei Sabini|publisher=Centro di studi varroniani|year=1985|language=it}}</ref> [[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]] mentions the Sabines in relation to the [[Aborigines (mythology)|Aborigines]], from whom they allegedly stole their capital Lista, with a surprise war action starting from [[Amiternum]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Dionysius of Halicarnassus|title=Roman Antiquities|chapter=Book I.14|quote=Twenty-four stades from the afore-mentioned city stood Lista, the mother-city of the Aborigines, which at a still earlier time the Sabines had captured by a surprise attack, having set out against it from Amiternum by night.}}</ref> Ancient historians debated the specific origins of the Sabines. According to [[Strabo]] the Sabines, after a long war with the Umbrians, migrated to the land of the [[Opici]], following the ancient Italic rite of the [[Ver sacrum|Ver Sacrum]]. The Sabines then drove out the Opici and encamped in that region.<ref>[[Strabo]], ''Geography'', book 5, 7 BCE, p. 250, Alexandria,</ref> Zenodotus of Troezen claimed that the Sabines were originally Umbrians that changed their name after being driven from the Reatine territory by the [[Pelasgians]]. Porcius Cato argued that the Sabines were a populace named after [[Sabus]], the son of Sancus (a divinity of the area sometimes called Jupiter Fidius).<ref>{{cite book|author=Dionysius of Halicarnassus|title=Roman Antiquities|chapter=Book II.49|quote=But Zenodotus of Troezen, a...historian, relates that the Umbrians, a native race, first dwelt in the Reatine territory, as it is called, and that, being driven from there by the Pelasgians, they came into the country which they now inhabit and changing their name with their place of habitation, from Umbrians were called Sabines. But Porcius Cato says that the Sabine race received its name from Sabus, the son of Sancus, a divinity of that country, and that this Sancus was by some called Jupiter Fidius.}}</ref> In another account mentioned in Dionysius's work, a group of [[Lacedaemonians]] fled [[Sparta]] since they regarded the laws of [[Lycurgus (Sparta)|Lycurgus]] as too severe. In Italy, they founded the Spartan colony of ''Foronia'' (near the Pomentine plains) and some from that colony settled among the Sabines. According to the account, the Sabine habits of belligerence and frugality were known to have derived from the Spartans.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dionysius of Halicarnassus|title=Roman Antiquities|chapter=Book II.49|quote=There is also another account given of the Sabines in the native histories, to the effect that a colony of Lacedaemonians settled among them at the time when Lycurgus, being guardian to his nephew Eunomus, gave his laws to Sparta. For the story goes that some of the Spartans, disliking the severity of his laws and separating from the rest, quit the city entirely, and after being borne through a vast stretch of sea, made a vow to the gods to settle in the first land they should reach; for a longing came upon them for any land whatsoever. At last they made that part of Italy which lies near the Pomentine plains and they called the place where they first landed Foronia, in memory of their being borne through the sea, and built a temple to the goddess Foronia, to whom they had addressed their vows; this goddess, by the alteration of one letter, they now call Feronia. And some of them, setting out from thence, settled among the Sabines. It is for this reason, they say, that many of the habits of the Sabines are Spartan, particularly their fondness for war and their frugality and a severity in all the actions of their lives. But this is enough about the Sabine race.}}</ref> Plutarch also mentions, in the Life of Numa Pompilius, "Sabines, who declare themselves to be a colony of the Lacedaemonians". Plutarch also wrote that the Pythagoras of Sparta, who was Olympic victor in the foot-race, helped Numa arrange the government of the city and many Spartan customs introduced by him to the Numa and the people.<ref>{{cite book|author=Plutarch|title=Numa|chapter=1|quote=Pythagoras, the Spartan, who was Olympic victor in the foot-race for the sixteenth Olympiad (in the third year of which Numa was made king), and that in his wanderings about Italy he made the acquaintance of Numa, and helped him arrange the government of the city, whence it came about that many Spartan customs were mingled with the Roman, as Pythagoras taught them to Numa. And at all events, Numa was of Sabine descent, and the Sabines will have it that they were colonists from Lacedaemon. Chronology, however, is hard to fix, and especially that which is based upon the names of victors in the Olympic games, the list of which is said to have been published at a late period by Hippias of Elis, who had no fully authoritative basis for his work. I shall therefore begin at a convenient point, and relate the noteworthy facts which I have found in the life of Numa.}}</ref>