Volsci
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8 sectionsContents
- Description by the ancient geographers
- Language
- Conflict with ancient Rome
- Prominent Volsci
- Prominent Romans of Volscian ancestry
- Roman Gentes of Volscian origin
- References
- Further reading
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The Volsci (, , ) were an Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. At the time they inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the south, the Hernici on the east, and stretching roughly from Norba and Cora in the north to Antium in the south. Rivals of Rome for several hundred years, their territories were taken over by and assimilated into the growing republic by 304 BC. Rome's first emperor Augustus was of Volscian descent.