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Probably he had found the expression Veneti in old writers and had learned personally the names
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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It was the people called the Veneti who, more than a thousand years ago, settled Venice, and invented these little ships.
Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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We can envision, for instance, Caesar's defeat of the mighty fleet of the Veneti, the Gauls who controlled Brittany and the sea routes around northwestern France.
Boardroom Conquerors Philip Delves Broughton 2012
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The Veneti far outnumbered the Romans and knew their treacherous coastal waters better than anyone.
Boardroom Conquerors Philip Delves Broughton 2012
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It will require some effort to justify the existence of such a language, just let me point to the Venedi of the Baltic coast as opposed to the Veneti of the Adriatic coast, two locations connected by the amber road, by the way.
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So a compromise could be that the Veneti migrated northward into Germanic territory, occasionally transferring some words that happen to be common to Etruscan and Rhaetic.
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Yet this difference begat two most inveterate factions in the Greek Byzantine empire, the Prasini and Veneti, till they ruined that unhappy government.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series: 2007
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Yet this difference begat two most inveterate factions in the Greek Byzantine empire, the Prasini and Veneti, till they ruined that unhappy government.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series: 2007
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Accipite cives Veneti quod est optimum in rebus humanis, res humans contemnere.
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H鎐 sedet in lacu maris, quemadmodum, et Veneti� et habentur in ea plures qu鄊 mille ducenti pontes, et in quolibet turres mir� magnitudinis, ac fortitudinis, munit� peruig韑i custodia, et pro vrbe tuenda contra
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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