Βουολοῦσκοι

Volsci

Translated by Jennifer Benedict · 5 Jun 2002 · Vetting: high · 11 revisions

Translation

The Volsci made war against the Romans, and suffered many casualties and lost the most famous cities of their nation, when Marcius [Coriolanus], a young man illustrious among the Romans, charged into the midst of his enemies, but then rushed inside the gates with the fugitives and opened the entrance to his countrymen. For these deeds he was honored by the monarch with many goods and many prisoners of war, but he rejected [these] other things and was content with a garland for valour and a warhorse; and he asked for one of the prisoners of war who was his friend and set him free.

Greek original

Βουολοῦσκοι· ὅτι Βουολοῦσκοι πόλεμον κατὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐξήγειραν καὶ πολλοῖς ζημιοῦνται σώμασι καὶ πόλεις ἐπιφανεστάτας τοῦ σφετέρου γένους ἀποβάλλουσι, Μαρκίου νέου παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἐπιφανοῦς ὠσαμένου ἐς μέσους τοὺς πολεμίους, συνεισπεσόντος δὲ πυλῶν ἐντὸς τοῖς φεύγουσι καὶ ἀναπετάσαντος τοῖς οἰκείοις τὴν εἴσοδον. ἐφ' οἷς πολλοῖς μὲν χρήμασι, πολλοῖς δὲ σώμασιν αἰχμαλώτοις πρὸς τοῦ μονάρχου τιμώμενος τὰ μὲν ἄλλα διωθήσατο, ἠρκέσθη δὲ στεφάνῳ τε ἀριστείῳ καὶ ἵππῳ πολεμιστηρίῳ· καὶ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων ἕνα τὸν αὑτοῦ φίλον αἰτήσας ἀφῆκεν ἐλεύθερον.

Betacode

*bouolou=skoi: o(/ti *bouolou=skoi po/lemon kata\ *(rwmai/wn e)ch/geiran kai\ polloi=s zhmiou=ntai sw/masi kai\ po/leis e)pifanesta/tas tou= sfete/rou ge/nous a)poba/llousi, *marki/ou ne/ou para\ *(rwmai/ois e)pifanou=s w)same/nou e)s me/sous tou\s polemi/ous, suneispeso/ntos de\ pulw=n e)nto\s toi=s feu/gousi kai\ a)napeta/santos toi=s oi)kei/ois th\n ei)/sodon. e)f' oi(=s polloi=s me\n xrh/masi, polloi=s de\ sw/masin ai)xmalw/tois pro\s tou= mona/rxou timw/menos ta\ me\n a)/lla diwqh/sato, h)rke/sqh de\ stefa/nw| te a)ristei/w| kai\ i(/ppw| polemisthri/w|: kai\ tw=n ai)xmalw/twn e(/na to\n au(tou= fi/lon ai)th/sas a)fh=ken e)leu/qeron.

Notes

cf. kappa 2092, mu 210 (end), mu 211. The transliteration 'Bouolouskoi' is unique to the Suda, which seems to have conflated the two attested spellings *ou)olou=skoi (Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus) and *bolou=skoi (Appian).
On this alleged episode (of 493 BCE) see OCD(4) p.897, s.v. Marcius Coriolanus. The source of the Suda's account of it is unidentifiable.
On the Volsci (again at omicron 923) in general -- usually considered to have been migrants into southern Latium from the central Appenines -- see OCD(4) s.v. (p.1563).

Neighbours in Adler order

β448Βούνομοι ἐπιστροφαίcattle-grazing haunts β449Βουνόμονcattle-pasturing (shore)β450Βουνόςhill β451ΒουολοῦσκοιVolsci β452ΒούπαλοςBoupalos β453Βούπαιςbig boy, ox-boy, ox-child β454Βούπειναox-hunger

Revisions (11)

4 Mar 2016Catharine Rothanother keyword
3 Mar 2016Catharine Roth
3 Mar 2016Catharine Rothexpanded note
2 Mar 2016Catharine Rothmore tweaks
1 Aug 2014David Whiteheadupdated OCD refs
4 Jul 2012Catharine Rothtweaked translation
1 Jun 2012David Whiteheadtweaked notes; more keywords
7 Oct 2003David Whiteheadmore x-refs
6 Jun 2002David Whiteheadaugmented note and keywords; cosmetics
5 Jun 2002Jennifer Benedicttranslated

Translation

Greek original

Betacode

*bouolou=skoi: o(/ti *bouolou=skoi po/lemon kata\ *(rwmai/wn e)ch/geiran kai\ polloi=s zhmiou=ntai sw/masi kai\ po/leis e)pifanesta/tas tou= sfete/rou ge/nous a)poba/llousi, *marki/ou ne/ou para\ *(rwmai/ois e)pifanou=s w)same/nou e)s me/sous tou\s polemi/ous, suneispeso/ntos de\ pulw=n e)nto\s toi=s feu/gousi kai\ a)napeta/santos toi=s oi)kei/ois th\n ei)/sodon. e)f' oi(=s polloi=s me\n xrh/masi, polloi=s de\ sw/masin ai)xmalw/tois pro\s tou= mona/rxou timw/menos ta\ me\n a)/lla diwqh/sato, h)rke/sqh de\ stefa/nw| te a)ristei/w| kai\ i(/ppw| polemisthri/w|: kai\ tw=n ai)xmalw/twn e(/na to\n au(tou= fi/lon ai)th/sas a)fh=ken e)leu/qeron.

Notes

cf. kappa 2092, mu 210 (end), mu 211. The transliteration 'Bouolouskoi' is unique to the Suda, which seems to have conflated the two attested spellings *ou)olou=skoi (Plutarch, Dionysius of Halicarnassus) and *bolou=skoi (Appian).
On this alleged episode (of 493 BCE) see OCD(4) p.897, s.v. Marcius Coriolanus. The source of the Suda's account of it is unidentifiable.
On the Volsci (again at omicron 923) in general -- usually considered to have been migrants into southern Latium from the central Appenines -- see OCD(4) s.v. (p.1563).