Volsci
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Volsci pl (plural only)
(historical) An ancient Italic people and culture from the first century of the Roman republic.
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Coriolanus had committed acts of disloyalty to both Rome and the Volsci, and Aufidius raised support to have Coriolanus first put on trial by the Volscians, and then assassinated before the trial had ended.
The Roman colonists were expelled by the Volsci in around 490 BC during a war between those two states.
He flees before the trial which would ruin him and his family socially and financially, and seeks the alliance with the Volsci described above.
The ambassadors were sent to the Volsci a second time, but were refused entry to the enemy camp.