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Volsci, the Glossary

The Volsci were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic.^[1]

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Italic peoples

Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aenē̆is or) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Location of the Aequi (Equi) in central Italy, 5th century BC. The Aequi were an Italic tribe on a stretch of the Apennine Mountains to the east of Latium in central Italy who appear in the early history of ancient Rome. Volsci and Aequi are Italic peoples.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Antium

Antium was an ancient coastal town in Latium, south of Rome.

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Attius Tullius

Attius Tullius was a well-respected and influential political and military leader of the Volsci in the early fifth century BC.

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Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.

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Aurunci

The Aurunci were an Italic tribe that lived in southern Italy from around the 1st millennium BC. Volsci and Aurunci are Italic peoples.

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Balventia gens

The gens Balventia was a Roman family during the late Republic.

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Camilla (mythology)

In Virgil's Aeneid, Camilla of the Volsci is the daughter of King Metabus and Casmilla.

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Clusium

Clusium (Κλύσιον, Klýsion, or Κλούσιον, Kloúsion; Umbrian:Camars) was an ancient city in Italy, one of several found at the same site overlapping the current municipality of Chiusi (Tuscany).

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Cognomen

A cognomen (cognomina; from co- "together with" and (g)nomen "name") was the third name of a citizen of ancient Rome, under Roman naming conventions.

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Collins English Dictionary

The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.

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Cori, Lazio

Cori (ancient Cora) is a city and comune in the province of Latina, in the Lazio region of central Italy.

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Coriolanus

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608.

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Corioli

Corioli was a town in ancient times in the territory of the Volsci in central Italy, in Latium adiectum.

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Decius

Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius (201June 251), known as Trajan Decius or simply Decius, was Roman emperor from 249 to 251.

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Ecetra

Ecetra was a town of the ancient Volsci tribe of central Italy.

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Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus

Gnaeus (or Gaius) Marcius Coriolanus was a Roman general who is said to have lived in the 5th century BC.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Hernici

The Hernici were an Italic tribe of ancient Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Fucine Lake and the Sacco River (Trerus), bounded by the Volsci on the south, and by the Aequi and the Marsi on the north. Volsci and Hernici are Italic peoples.

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History of Rome (Livy)

The History of Rome, perhaps originally titled Annales, and frequently referred to as Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City), is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius, better known in English as "Livy".

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Italic peoples

The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latins (Italic tribe)

The Latins (Latin: Latinus (m.), Latina (f.), Latini (m. pl.)), sometimes known as the Latials or Latians, were an Italic tribe which included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome (see Roman people). Volsci and Latins (Italic tribe) are Italic peoples.

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Latium

Latium is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.

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Livy

Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.

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Lucius Tarquinius Superbus

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (died 495 BC) was the legendary seventh and final king of Rome, reigning 25 years until the popular uprising that led to the establishment of the Roman Republic.

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Messia gens

The gens Messia was a plebeian family at Rome.

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Norba

Norba, an ancient town of Latium (Adjectum), Italy.

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Octavia gens

The gens Octavia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome, which was raised to patrician status by Caesar during the first century BC.

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Oscan language

Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy.

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Osco-Umbrian languages

The Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in Central and Southern Italy by the Osco-Umbrians before being replaced by Latin, as the power of Ancient Rome expanded.

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Parallel Lives

The Parallel Lives (Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Pomptina gens

The gens Pomptina was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Pontine Marshes

Lake Fogliano, a coastal lagoon in the Pontine Plain The Pontine Marshes (Agro Pontino, formerly also Paludi Pontine; Pomptīnus Ager by Titus Livius, Pomptīna Palus and Pomptīnae Paludes by Pliny the ElderNatural History 3.59.) is an approximately quadrangular area of former marshland in the Lazio Region of central Italy, extending along the coast southeast of Rome about from just east of Anzio to Terracina (ancient Tarracina), varying in distance inland between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Volscian Mountains (the Monti Lepini in the north, the Monti Ausoni in the center, and the Monti Aurunci in the south) from The northwestern border runs approximately from the mouth of the river Astura along the river and from its upper reaches to Cori in the Monti Lepini.

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Publicia gens

The gens Publicia (Pūblicia), occasionally found as Poblicia or Poplicia, was a plebeian family at ancient Rome.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volsci

Also known as Volscan, Volscans, Volscia, Volscians, Voslcians, Vulsci.

Volsci, the Glossary

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