Italic people of Campania and Latium adiectum during Roman times.
1Marching southward, they vanquished the Oscans and occupied the plains of Latium.
2If it ever existed in Etruscan, it had been lost before the Oscans and Umbrians borrowed their alphabets.
3The next advance in point of art must be attributed to the Oscans, whose entertainments were most popular among the Italian nations.
4All the country to the south was in possession of the Oscans, with the exception of Latium, which was inhabited by the Sikeli.