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Brennus, Brennī

Brennus

Βρέννος

noun (m., 3^rd Greek declension)

a leader of the Gauls who defeated the Romans at the river Allia

Abbreviations

Brennus, i, m., = Βρέννος, a leader of the Gauls who defeated the Romans at the river Allia, Liv. 5, 38, 3; Serv. ad Verg. A. 6, 826.

—Hence, Brennicus, a, um, adj., of Brennus: signa, Sid. Carm. 7, 561.

— A king of the Gauls who invaded Greece in the second century B.C. and attacked Delphi, Cic. Div. 1, 37, 81; Just. 24, 5 sqq.; Val. Max. 1, 1, 18; Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 51.