Everything about Volscians totally explained
The
Volsci were an
ancient Italic people, well known in the history of the first century of the
Roman Republic. They then 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.
The Volsci spoke
Volscian, a Sabellic
Italic language, which was closely related to
Oscan and
Umbrian, but also to
Latin, more distantly. They were among the most dangerous enemies of
Rome, and frequently allied with the
Aequi, whereas the
Hernici from
486 BC onwards were the allies of Rome. In the Volscian territory lay the little town of Velitrae (modern
Velletri), the birthplace of
Caesar Augustus. From this town comes an inscription dating probably from early in the
3rd century BC; it's cut upon a small bronze plate (now in the Naples Museum), which must have once been fixed to some votive object, dedicated to the god
Declunus (or the goddess
Decluna).
Virgil's character of the warrior maiden
Camilla in the
Aeneid is a Volscian. Also, the legendary Roman warrior
Coriolanus earned his
cognomen after taking the Volscian town of
Corioli in
493 BC. The supposed rise and fall of this hero is chronicled in Shakespeare's
Coriolanus. The Roman orator and writer
Cicero, author of the political philosophy classic
On the Republic, was also of Volscian descent.
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