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Encyclopedia Britannica



AURUNCI

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 935 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AUD-BAI
AURUNCI , the name given by the Romans to a tribe which in historical times occupied only a strip of
coast
  on either side of the
Mons
  Massicus between the Volturnus and the Liris, although it must at an earlier period have extended over a considerably wider area. Their own name for themselves in
the 4th
century
  B.C. was Ausones, and in
Greek
  writers we find the name Ausonia applied to Latium and Campania (see Strabo v. p. 247;
Aristotle
 , Pol. iv. (vii.) ro;
Dion
 . Hal. i. 72), while in the Augustan poets (e.g. Virgil, Aen. vii. 795) it is used as one of many synonyms for
Italy
 . In history the tribe appears only for a brief space, from 340 to 295 B.C. (Mommsen, C.I.L. x. pp. 451, 463, 465), and their struggle with the Romans ended in complete extermination; their territory was parcelled out between the Latin colonies of Cales (Livy viii. 16) and Suessa Aurunca (id. ix. 28) which took the place of an older town called Ausona (id. ix. 25; viii. 15), and the maritime colonies Sinuessa (the older Vescia) and Minturnae (both in 295 B.C., Livy X. 21). The coin formerly attributed to Suessa Aurunca on the strength of its supposed legend Aurunkud has now been certainly referred to Naples (see R. S. Conway,
Italic
  Dialects, 145, and Verner's law in
Italy
 , p. 78, where the
change
  of s to r is explained as probably due to the Latin conquest). Seeing that the tribe was blotted out at the beginning of the 3rd
century
  B.C., we can scarcely wonder that no
record
  of its speech survives; but its 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.) rank them beyond doubt with their neighbours the Volsci (q.v.). (R. S. C.)


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