Samnites, a warlike people of ancient Italy in territory SE. of Rome; gave the Romans much trouble till, after two successive wars in 343 and 327 B.C., they were subdued in 290 B.C. A revolt in 90 B.C. led to their extermination as an nation.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Samian Sage * Samoa