The
Volsci were an
Italic tribe, well known in the history of the first century of the
Roman Republic. At that time they inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of
Latium, bounded by the
Aurunci and
Samnites on the south, the
Hernici on the east, and stretching roughly from
Norba and
Cora in the north to
Antium (modern
Anzio and
Nettuno) in the south. Rivals of Rome for several hundred years, their territories were taken over by and assimilated into the growing Republic by 300 BC.