Pēligni or Paeligni, ōrum, m.,
I a people of Central Italy , contiguous to the Frentani and Marrucini , descendants of the Sabines , in the mod. Abruzzo citeriore , Caes. B. C. 1, 15; Liv. 8, 6; 9, 41 sq.; Niebuhr, Gesch. 1, p. 100 sq.: in Pelignos proficisci, into the Pelignian territory , Liv. 8, 6.—
B The country of the Peligni : in Pelignis, Plin. 11, 14, 14, § 33.—Hence,
II Pēlig-nus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Peligni , Pelignian : Peligna cohors, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 251 P. (Ann. v. 280 Vahl.): miles, Ov. F. 3, 95: frigora, Hor. C. 3, 19, 8: Peligni ruris alumnus, i. e. Ovid , who was born in the Pelignian city of Sulmo, Ov. Am. 3, 15, 3; cf. id. ib. 3, 15, 8: Pelignae anus, i. e. sorceresses (because the Pelignians, as neighbors of the Marsians, were reputed to practise sorcery), Hor. Epod. 17, 60.