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- noun Plural form of
abuna .
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Five rebellions were extinguished in the blood of the insurgents: two abunas were slain in battle, whole legions were slaughtered in the field, or suffocated in their caverns; and neither merit, nor rank, nor sex, could save from an ignominious death the enemies of Rome.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Five rebellions were extinguished in the blood of the insurgents: two abunas were slain in battle, whole legions were slaughtered in the field, or suffocated in their caverns; and neither merit, nor rank, nor sex, could save from an ignominious death the enemies of Rome.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Five rebellions were extinguished in the blood of the insurgents: two abunas were slain in battle, whole legions were slaughtered in the field, or suffocated in their caverns; and neither merit, nor rank, nor sex, could save from an ignominious death the enemies of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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