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Aurunci , ōrum, m., = Ausones, q.v., = Αὔρουγκοι Tzetz.
I. The Aurunci, Verg. A. 11, 318; Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 56.—Hence,
II. A.. 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,
B. 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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    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.318
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 7.206
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.56
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