Sabelli

Sabelli (səbĕl`ī), people of ancient Italy who spoke Oscan. They were a loose group and seemed to have had little or no political unity. Oscan-speaking tribes expanded over central Italy, and by the 5th cent. B.C. they seem to have taken ancient Campania and Lucania. The Samnites and Sabines were probably Sabelli.

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Sabelli 

tribes of the Osco-Umbrian-Sabellian branch of the ancient Italici.

The Sabelli settled around Lake Fucino and included the Marsi, Marrucini, Vestini, and Frentani. In the fourth century B.C., they joined a military tribal alliance—the Samnite league—headed by the Samnites, a kindred tribe. From the second half of the fourth century B.C. to the beginning of the third century B.C., the Sabelli waged a desperate struggle against the Romans, a struggle that ended in a Roman victory and in Rome’s annexation of most of the Sabelli’s lands. Until the first century B.C., the Sabelli retained distinct vestiges of the primitive communal system. As a result of the Social War of 90–88 B.C. against Rome, they gained Roman citizenship. Subsequently, they were completely romanized.