Sabine

Member of an ancient people of central Italy, conquered by the Romans and amalgamated with them in the 3rd century BC. The so-called rape of the Sabine women – a mythical attempt by Romulus in the early days of Rome to carry off the Sabine women to colonize the new city – is frequently depicted in art.

Sabine

River in eastern Texas and Louisiana, USA; length 580 km/360 mi. It rises northeast of Dallas, its headstreams impounded in Lake Tawakoni by the Iron Bridge Dam (1961), and forms part of the Louisiana–Texas border, flowing out into the Gulf of Mexico through the Sabine Pass.

Lumbering and other wood industries, in addition to oil, dominate the economy of the lower Sabine.

Course The river flows southeast out of Lake Tawakoni into wooded eastern Texas. It forms the Louisiana–Texas border from near Logansport, Louisiana, down to its mouth. It passes through the Toledo Bend Reservoir, flanked on the west by the Sabine National Forest, in the Piney Woods, and continues south through the oil-rich Texas–Louisiana coastal area to the Gulf of Mexico.