Noricann.adj.

1590 L. Lloyd Consent of Time 706 The third [son] after his owne name Lewes, whom also hee sent as king ouer the Noricanes.

1640 Bp. Hall Episcopacie 12 The same Melanchthon in an Epistle to Luther hath thus; You do not believe in how great hatred I am, both with the Noricians, and I know not whom els, for restoring to the Bishops their jurisdiction.

1788 J. P. Hawkey tr. Caesar Gallic & Civil Wars i. 50 Ariovistus had two wives, one a Suabian,..the other a Norican, sister to Vocion.

1851 Encycl. Americana I. 482/1 After the Romans has vanquished the Noricans, A.D. 33, and gained possession of the Danube, the country north of the Danube, extending to the borders of Bohemia and Moravia, belonged to the kingdom of the Marcomanni and Quadi.

1878 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 7 219 We are told he had two wives, one a Suevan or Suabian,..the other a Norican.

1635 W. Saltonstall tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 326 The whole Norican Bavaria should belong to the Prince Palatines, except some Emperiall Citties, and whatsoever formerly appertained to the Empire.

1732 S. Palmer Gen. Hist. Printing i. ix. 73 He had seen no less than eight copies of them in the Norican library.

1851 Encycl. Americana III. 289 Lutatius Catulus was to take his position at the foot of the Norican Alps.

1887 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Provinces Rom. Empire viii. 26 The Roman garrisons reached as far as the Danube at Carnuntum (Petronell, near Vienna), at that time the last Norican town towards the east.

1923 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 13 206 Wagon-loads of men and women drawn by horses or mules, a common subject of Pannonian and Norican reliefs.

1974 A. Birley tr. G. Alfödy Noricum iv. 43 The patrimonium regni Norici of the Roman imperial period..was seemingly inherited by Augustus and the emperors as successors to the Norican Kings.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Jan. 40/1 We do not know when the Norican royal house petered out.

1741 D. Watson tr. Horace Odes Epodes & Carmen Seculare Index Norican Swords, in great Repute at Rome.

1857 L. Schmitz in W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Geogr. II. 447/1 Norican iron and steel were celebrated in ancient times as they still are.

1874 Amer. Cycl. IX. 390/1 He speaks of..the Serican, Parthian, and Norican irons.

1950 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 40 169 Already in Republican times trade in Norican iron was carried on with Italy.

1994 S. K. Drummond & L. H. Nelson Western Frontiers Imperial Rome vii. 157 The term ferrum noricum, ‘Norican iron’, referred in fact to the high-grade steel produced in Noricum.