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  • noun obsolete One of the Volsci; a Volscian.

Etymologies

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From Volsc-, the stem of the Latin Volscī.

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Examples

  • [A highway between Rome and Antium.] [Enter a Roman and a Volsce, meeting]

    Coriolanus 1607

  • I. x.5 (326,3) Being a Volsce, be that I am] It may be just observed, that Shakespeare calls the _Volsci, Volsces_, which the modern editors have changed to the modern termination [Volscian].

    Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

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