Volcæ, or Volgæ, a people of Gaul between the Garonne and the Rhone. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 26.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 5.
Volci, an inland town of Lucania, now Lauria. Livy, bk. 27, ch. 15.——A town of Etruria. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.
Vologĕses, a name common to many of the kings of Parthia, who made war against the Roman emperors. Tacitus, bk. 12, Annals, ch. 14.
Volscens, a Latin chief who discovered Nisus and Euryalus as they returned from the Rutulian camp loaded with spoils. He killed Euryalus, and was himself immediately stabbed by Nisus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, lis. 370 & 442.
Volsci, or Volci, a people of Latium, whose territories are bounded on the south by the Tyrrhene sea, north by the country of the Hernici and Marsi, west by the Latins and Rutulians, and east by Campania. Their chief cities were Antium, Circeii, Anxur, Corioli, Fregellæ, Arpinum, &c. Ancus king of Rome made war against them, and in the time of the republic they became formidable enemies, till they were at last conquered with the rest of the Latins. Livy, bks. 3 & 4.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2, li. 168; Æneid, bk. 9, li. 505; bk. 11, li. 546, &c.—Strabo, bk. 5.—Mela, bk. 2, chs. 4 & 5.
Volsinium, a town of Etruria in Italy, destroyed, according to Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 53, by fire from heaven. The inhabitants numbered their years by fixing nails in the temple of Nortia, a Tuscan goddess. Livy, bk. 5, ch. 31; bk. 7, ch. 3.—Juvenal, satire 15, li. 191.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 4.
Voltinia, one of the Roman tribes.
Volubilis, a town of Africa, supposed Fez, the capital of Morocco. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 1.
Volumnæ Fanum, a temple in Etruria, sacred to the goddess Volumna, who presided over the will and over complaisance, where the states of the country used to assemble. Viterbo now stands on the spot. Livy, bk. 4, ch. 23; bk. 5, ch. 17; bk. 6, ch. 2.
Volumnia, the wife of Coriolanus. Livy, bk. 2, ch. 40.——The freedwoman of Volumnius Eutrapelus. Cicero, Philippics, bk. 2, ch. 24.