Sabina
Definition
Sabina and its German form Sabine (pronounced in the same way) mean "Sabine woman". In the legendary history of Rome told by the historian Livy, the neighbouring Sabine people refused to intermarry with the men of the newly founded Rome, where there was a desperate shortage of women. To avoid their city dying after one generation, the Romans invited the Sabines to a festival, ambushed them, and then carried off all the young women and married them by force. This became known as "The Rape of the Sabine women". It took a long time before the Sabines could organise their revenge. When battle was finally joined, the Sabine women found themselves faced with the prospect of losing either their parents or their husbands, now the fathers of their children. To escape from this situation they forced their way between the two armies and imposed peace. For this they were greatly honoured. The name is used in Ireland to anglicise the Irish name Sadhbh, Sadb or Sive ("goodness, sweet", rhymes with alive), which is also anglicised as Sabia. Sadhbh was a goddess who was turned into a fawn by the Dark Druid, but was able to visit Finn at night in human form, and by him became the mother of Ossian, the "little fawn". Sadhbh is regularly used in the Irish Republic
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