Osci
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14 sectionsContents
- Classical sources
- History
- Oscans of the early republic
- Conflict and subjugation
- Volscian war
- First Samnite War
- Latin War
- Fall of Cales
- Peace with the Sidicini and Aurunci
- Vestiges of the Oscans at Rome
- Religion
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
thumb|Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy.
The Osci (also called Oscans, Opici, Opsci, Obsci, Opicans) were an Italic people of Campania and Latium adiectum before and during Roman times. They spoke the Oscan language, also spoken by the Samnites of Southern Italy. Although the language of the Samnites was called Oscan, the Samnites were never referred to as Osci, nor were the Osci called Samnites.