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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

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.

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We have seen that the word homoousios was used in the third century only by certain Monarchians (Libyan Sabellians and Paul of Samosata) to mean the uniqueness of God and the personal identity of the Son with the Father (identification-theology) and, with a different, simply analogical meaning, by Origen and Dionysius of Alexandria.

Homoousios was used in the third century as a technical term of the identification-theology (that is, Christ and the Father are one and the same God) only by a small group of bishops of the Libyan Pentapolis, or members of the Church of Alexandria, who manifested a distinct inclination towards a kind of Sabellian monarchianism.

The word "homoousios" from Hellenism to Christianity

1-2 in this study because the references to modalism in the later works have a greater probability of embracing views of later Sabellians.

the question Epiphanius attributes to the Sabellians, `Do we have one God or three Gods?' (Haer.