The Sabines (Latin Sabini, singular Sabinus) were an Italic tribe that lived in the central Appennines of ancient Italy, inhabiting also Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. Their language belonged to the Osco-Umbrian subgroup (formerly Sabellic) of Italic languages and contains some words shared with Oscan and Umbrian as well as with Latin. Tradition suggests that the population of the early Roman kingdom was the result of a union of Sabines and others. Some of the gentes of… (More on Sabine)