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word opos or opsaom, in Latin opus, meaning "work," "to work"), were Italic tribes who inhabited southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium B.c.
About 200 Oscan inscriptions are extant (Fig. 227); 150 of them have been found in Campania. They belong mainly to the third and second centuries B.C., but some inscriptions may be dated in the fifth century B.C., and others down to the Christian era. Oscan coins have been found dating from the fifth to the first century B.C. The most important inscrip
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