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Οὐολοῦσκοί (Ouolouskoi)

Οὐολοῦσκοί means “Ouolouskoi — the Volsci, a people of Latium, enemies of early Rome”.

Ancient Greek word, found 38 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marcius Coriolanus 10.3: ἐξαίρετον δὲ μίαν αἰτοῦμαι χάριν, ἔφη, καὶ δέομαι λαβεῖν. ἦν μοι ξένος ἐν Οὐολούσκοις καὶ φίλος, ἀνὴρ ἐπιεικὴς καὶ μέτριος· οὗτος ἑάλωκε νῦν καὶ γέγονεν ἐκ πλουσίου καὶ μακαρίου δοῦλος, πολλῶν οὖ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 8.63.2: πρότεροι γὰρ ἔτι τούτων Οὐολοῦσκοί τε καὶ Αἰκανοὶ στρατὸν ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥωμαίων γῆν ἤγαγον γνώμην ποιησάμενοι μὴ ἀνεῖναι τὸν καιρόν, ἀλλʼ, ἕως ἔτι κατ …

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.