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The Sicels (/ˈsɪkəlz, ˈsɪsəlz/ SIK-əlz, SISS-əlz; Latin: Sicelī or Siculī) were an Indo-European tribe who inhabited eastern Sicily, their namesake, during

(Oenotrians) Itali Morgetes? Sicels (Siculi) Rutuli? Sicani? Usually[when?] they are included as an Italic people by many[quantify] scholars.[who?] However

Sicel: an ancient language spoken by the Sicels (Greek Sikeloi, Latin Siculi), one of the three indigenous (i.e. pre-Greek and pre-Punic) tribes of Sicily

Volscian was a Sabellic Italic language, which was spoken by the Volsci and closely related to Oscan and Umbrian. Volscian is attested in an inscription

suggested that he was the legendary progenitor of the Sicels (or Siculi), an Italic people who colonised Sicily three hundred years before the Ancient Greeks

an oikistes). The native inhabitants of the island were the Sicani, the Siculi and the Elimi.[citation needed] There were also small Phoenician trading

Naturalis Historia, III, 56; III, 69. Arias, Paolo Enrico (1943). Problemi sui Siculi e sugli Etruschi (in Italian). Crisafulli. Virgil, Aeneid, VII, 795; VIII

perhaps referring to the legend that the people of Alba Longa was a mixture of two ancient Italic peoples, the Siculi and the Prisci. Whatever the origin of

Sicanians, and the Sicels, the last being an Indo-European-speaking people of possible Italic affiliation, who migrated from the Italian mainland (likely from

"Aurunci", was a name applied by Greek writers to describe various Italic peoples inhabiting the southern and central regions of Italy. The term was used