Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A people of ancient Italy whose territory was conquered by the Romans in the fourth century BC.
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- proper noun historical An ancient
Italic people and culture from the first century of the Roman republic.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He returns to Antium, the Volsci capital, with a peace treaty; the Volsci general Aufidius, unimpressed by this latest shift of allegiance, has him killed on the spot, and the play ends.
April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah nickbarnes 2009
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Clive Brill, the director, has had a good idea for the soundscape which doesn't quite work: the Volsci are Yorkshiremen, and the incidental music is therefore all in colliery brass band style.
April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah nickbarnes 2009
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Coriolanus throws his lot in with his former enemies, the Volsci, and leads them in turn to military success against his home city.
April Books 3) From One To Zero: A Universal History of Numbers, by Georges Ifrah nickbarnes 2009
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CORIOLANUS, a Roman patrician, who, being driven from the city, took refuge with Aufidius, the leader of the Volsci.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Fidenae did to you, the wrong that the Eques, the Volsci, and the Sabines have done to you.
Les Miserables 2008
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Volsci and Samnites, they were, we are told, men disinterested and virtuous.
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Soon after this the Latin League was formed, and a military alliance was made with Rome to defend the homeland against invading Aequi and Volsci.
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This ancient stronghold of the Volsci, fanatically loyal to Carbo's cause, stood atop a mountain twenty miles to the southwest, and gladly opened the gates in its impregnable walls to receive Ahenobarbus's ten thousand men.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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Did it have an Oscan ring to it, just because there were Samnites and Volsci called Marius?
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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After the treaty of 354 mentioned above, both the Romans and Samnites had, independently of each other, been waging war upon the Volsci.
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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