Editing Volsci (section)

==Conflict with ancient Rome==
{{Main|Roman-Volscian wars}}
The Volsci were among the most dangerous enemies of [[ancient Rome]], and frequently allied with the [[Aequi]], whereas their neighbors, the [[Hernici]], were allied with Rome after 486 BC.<ref name="RosensteinMorstein-Marx2011">
{{cite book
|author1=Nathan Rosenstein
|author2=Robert Morstein-Marx
|title=A Companion to the Roman Republic
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C4rmmvFAKjoC&pg=PA279
|date=7 September 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons
|isbn=978-1-4443-5720-2|pages=279–
}}</ref><ref name="Chisholm1911"/>  

According to the semi-legendary history of early Rome, its seventh and last king, [[Lucius Tarquinius Superbus]], was the first to go to war against the Volsci, commencing two centuries of conflict between the two states.<ref name=":0">[[Livy]] ''[[Ab urbe condita (book)|Ab urbe condita]]'' 6.6; 6.9; 8.1</ref>

[[Gaius Marcius Coriolanus]], the legendary Roman warrior, earned his [[cognomen]] after capturing the Volscian town of [[Corioli]] in 493 BC. The reputed rise and fall of this Roman hero is chronicled in [[Plutarch]]'s ''[[Parallel Lives]]'', which served as the basis for the [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] play, ''[[Coriolanus]]''.<ref name="Shakespeare1969">{{cite book|author=William Shakespeare|title=Coriolanus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Aus8AAAAIAAJ|year=1969|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-0-521-07529-9}}</ref> 

However, if [[Livy]]'s account of the [[Roman-Etruscan Wars#War with Clusium in 508 BC|war between Rome and Clusium]] is accurate, it would seem that the relationship between Rome and the Volsci was not always hostile. Livy writes that at the approach of the [[Clusium|Clusian]] army in 508 BC, with the prospect of a siege, the [[Roman senate]] arranged for the purchase of grain from the Volsci to feed the lower classes of Rome.<ref>[[Livy]] ''[[Ab urbe condita (book)|Ab urbe condita]]'' 2. 9</ref>