The Opici were an ancient italic people of the
Latino-Faliscan
The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family. They were spoken by the Latino-Faliscan people of Italy who lived there from the early 1st millennium BCE.
Latin and Faliscan belong ...
group who lived in the region of
Campania
Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...
. They settled in the area in the late Bronze Age but their territory was later conquered during the Iron Age by the
Osci
The Osci (also called Oscans, Opici, Opsci, Obsci, Opicans) were an Italic people of Campania and Latium adiectum before and during Roman times. They spoke the Oscan language, also spoken by the Samnites of Southern Italy. Although the language ...
, another Italic people but of the
Osco-Umbrian
The Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in Central and Southern Italy by the Osco-Umbrians before being replaced by Latin, as the power of Ancient Rom ...
group.
Sources
* Giacomo Devoto, ''Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia'', 1a ed., Florence, Sansoni Università, 1974. P. 123.
* Giacomo Devoto, ''Gli antichi Italici'', 2a ed., Florence, Vallecchi, 1951. P. 137.
Ancient peoples of Italy