Here's a little passage from Hubert's "Rise":
"With regard to the Volc©¡, one of the oldest groups
and one of the first to leave their old homes, bodies
of whom went to the ends of the Celtic world and were
in the position of an advanced guard in Gaul, a recent
conjecture corroborates our hypothesis regarding their
original habitat. That very ingenious philologist, M.
Cuny, has compared the name of the Volc©¡ to that of
the Volsci of Latium, and suggests that the two
peoples had the same name, having the termination -co
in one case and -sco in the other. Both terminations
were used alternatively in what was apparently the old
name of the Oscans, Opisci, or, as the Greeks said,
¥Ï¥ð¥é¥ê¥ïὴ. If M. Cuny is right we have to do
with a name which was common to the vocabularies of
the Italic and Celtic groups. Since racial names do
not seem to turn up in two neighbouring racial spheres
by mere chance, the Volc©¡ or Volsci may be a people
divided between the two groups, belonging to one and
having sent out emigrants to the other. Their presence
in Bavaria and their obstinacy in remaining there are
most significant facts. The Volc©¡ did not go to
Bavaria; they were there, and quite close to the
probable point of contact between the Italici and the
Celts."
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