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Aurunci

gen. ōrum · gender masculine · decl. 2nd
= Ausones, q.v., = Αὔρουγκοι Tzetz.
The Aurunci
The Aurunci, Verg. A. 11, 318; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 56.—Hence,
an old town in Campania; the satirist Lucilius; whose paternal city
Aurunca, ae, f., an old town in Campania (acc. to the fable, built by Auson, the son of Ulysses and Calypso, Fest. s. v. Ausoniam, p. 15): magnus Auruncae alumnus, i. e. the satirist Lucilius, whose paternal city, Suessa Aurunca, was a colony of the Aurunci, Juv. 1, 20 Rup.—Hence,
pertaining to Aurunca; Auruncian; Sessa •
Au-runcus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Aurunca, Auruncian: senes, Verg. A. 7, 206: patres, id. ib. 7, 727: manus, id. ib. 7, 795: Suessa Aurunca, now Sessa, Vell. 1, 14.
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