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AURUNCI , the name given by the See also:

Romans to a tribe which in See also:historical times occupied only a See also:strip of See also:coast on either See also:side of the See also:Mons See also:Massicus between the Volturnus and the Liris, although it must at an earlier See also:period have extended over a considerably wider See also:area. Their own name for themselves in the 4th See also:century B.C. was Ausones, and in See also:Greek writers we find the name Ausonia applied to See also:Latium and See also:Campania (see See also:Strabo v. p. 247; See also:Aristotle, Pol. iv. (vii.) ro; See also:Dion. See also:Hal. i. 72), while in the Augustan poets (e.g. See also:Virgil, Aen. vii. 795) it is used as one of many synonyms for See also:Italy. In See also:history the tribe appears only for a brief space, from 340 to 295 B.C. (See also:Mommsen, C.I.L. x. pp. 451, 463, 465), and their struggle with the Romans ended in See also:complete extermination; their territory was parcelled out between the Latin colonies of Cales (See also:Livy viii. 16) and Suessa Aurunca (id. ix.

28) which took the See also:

place of an older See also:town called Ausona (id. ix. 25; viii. 15), and the maritime colonies Sinuessa (the older Vescia) and See also:Minturnae (both in 295 B.C., Livy X. 21). The See also:coin formerly attributed to Suessa Aurunca on the strength of its supposed See also:legend Aurunkud has now been certainly referred to See also:Naples (see R. S. See also:Conway, See also:Italic Dialects, 145, and Verner's See also:law in Italy, p. 78, where the See also:change of s to r is explained as probably due to the Latin See also:conquest). Seeing that the tribe was blotted out at the beginning of the 3rd century B.C., we can scarcely wonder that no See also:record of its speech survives; but its See also:geographical situation and the frequency of the co-suffix in that strip of coast (besides Aurunci itself we have the names Vescia, Mons Massicus, Marica, Glanica and Caedicii; see Italic Dialects, pp. 283 f.) See also:rank them beyond doubt with their neighbours the See also:Volsci (q.v.). (R. S.

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