Wikipedia
Veneti may refer to:
- Veneti (Gaul), an ancient Celtic tribe described by classical sources as living in what is now Brittany, France
- Adriatic Veneti, an ancient historical people of northeastern Italy, who spoke an Indo-European language
- Vistula Veneti, an ancient historical people of north central Europe, who lived near the Vistula River and the Baltic Sea
- Veneti, modern residents of the Veneto region of Italy
Usage examples of "veneti".
They were paler-skinned and bigger in stature than their Celtic-cousin Veneti we had encountered in Venetia, and, no doubt because these lived closer to Rome, they spoke Latin much more correctly.
The captain probably had friends in every port where the Veneti called.
They fled to Ireland, assisted by the Veneti, who were guest friends of the royal house.
And the women had been right, too, because her uncle stopped by, having taken service with a Veneti captain.
The Veneti had betrayed him by refusing to re supply the Saxon levies left behind by the legions, and he had found he had to back a new high king to halt the ever widening chaos that threatened to bring down the powerful southern landowners, his civilized allies.
The Veneti, especially a captain with his own ship, would have several.
They are an old trick of the Veneti, one way a dispersed people can communicate quickly.
Kyra tells me, but only the Veneti and the Painted People know the parts of the songs that allow them to traverse the whale road, far out of the sight of land, yet look up into the sky by night and know where they are.
Many were the ports now closed to the Veneti by aggressive barbarian lords who dominated them.
Caesar had ordered specially built along the Liger River and then sent out into the open ocean to do battle with the two hundred and twenty solid-oak sailing ships of the Veneti, who thought the Roman vessels ludicrous with their oars and their flimsy pine hulls, their low prows and poops.
A Roman ship would row in close to a Veneti ship and maneuver alongside, whereupon its crew would tilt their pole, tangle it among the Veneti shrouds, then sprint away under oar power.
Down came the Veneti sails and masts, leaving the vessel helpless in the water.
Maybe when I am old and I have done all that my blood and power demand, I shall take one of those solid-oak Veneti ships, hoist its leather sails and go into the West to follow the path of the sun.
Did the walls you built to dam out Ocean enable you to take any of the Veneti strongholds?
These were the vessels Caesar had ordered specially built along the Liger River and then sent out into the open ocean to do battle with the two hundred and twenty solid-oak sailing ships of the Veneti, who thought the Roman vessels ludicrous with their oars and their flimsy pine hulls, their low prows and poops.