I.a volunteer, first applied to the slaves who, after the battle at Cannæ, were enrolled upon their own expressed desire to serve (cf. Liv. 22, 57, 11; Val. Max. 7, 6, 1): “volones dicti sunt milites, qui post Cannensem cladem usque ad octo milia, cum essent servi, voluntarie se ad militiam obtulere,” Paul. Diac. p. 370: “volones, quia sponte hoc voluerunt, appellati,” Macr. S. 1, 11, 30: “vetus miles tironi, liber voloni sese exaequari sineret,” Liv. 23, 35, 6; 23, 32, 1; Capitol. Anton. Phil. 21, 6; Macr. S. 1, 11, 30.
vŏlo , ōnis, m. 1. volo,