Marrucīni
or
Marucīni. A brave and warlike people in Italy, of the
Sabellian race, occupying a narrow slip of country along the right bank of the river Aternus,
and bounded on the north by the Vestini, on the west by the Peligni and Marsi, on the south by
the Frentani, and on the east by the Adriatic Sea. Their chief town was Teaté. With
their neighbours the Marsi, Peligni, etc., they submitted to the Romans in B.C. 304 (
Livy, ix. 41).