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 1260 VATEDO. (Breton, Mem. de la Sociite Royale des Antiqumres de France, torn, xvi., quoted by Richard et Hue- quart, Guide du Voyageur.') [G. L.] VATEDO, ill Gallia, mentioned in the Table, is a place east of Bordeaux, supposed to be Vaires on the left bank of the Dordogne, a branch of the Garonne. [G. L.] VATRENUS (Santerno), a river of Gallia Cispadana, one of the southern tributaries of the Padus. It had its sources in the Apennines, flowed under the walls of Forum Cornelii (Imola), and joined the southern branch of the Padus (the Spineticum Ostium) not far from its mouth, for which reason the port at the entrance of that arm of the river was called the Portus Vatreni. (Plin. iii. 16. s. 20.) The Santerno now flows into the Po di Primaro (the modern representative of the Spinetic branch), above 16 miles from its mouth: but the channels of both are in this part artificial. In this lower part of its course it must always have been more of a canal than a river, whence Martial uses its name as typical of a sluggish stream. (Martial, iii. 67. 2.) ^Ie.H. B.] UBERAE, a nation in India extra Gangem, men- tioned by Pliny (vi. 19. s. 22). It possessed a large town of the same name. It is not possible to deter- mine its exact position ; but, from the names of other nations mentioned by Pliny in connection with the Uberae, it is probable that this people lived near the mouths of the Brahmaputra. [V.] U'BII (OvSioi), a German people who in Cae- sar's time lived on the east bank of the Rhine and opposite to the Treviri, for Caesar having made his bridge in the country of the Treviri passed over into the country of the Ubii. Owing to their proximity to the Rhine they were somewhat more civilised than the other Germans, being much visited by mer- chants and accustomed to Gallic manners (£. G. iv. 3, 18, vi. 29, .35). The Sigambri were the neighbours of the Ubii on the north. The Suevi were pressing the Ubii hard, when the Ubii applied to Caesar for help: they gave him hostages, and oftered to supply him with a large number of boats to cross the river, from which we may infer that they were accustomed to navigate the Rhine. (S. G. iv. 16.) In the time of Augustus (Strab. iv. p. 194), the nation crossed the Rhine, and Agrippa assigned them lands on the west bank of the river, the policy of the Romans being to strengthen the Rhenish frontier against the rest of the Germans. (Tacit. Germ. c. 28, Annal. xii. 27; Sueton. Aug. c. 21.) In the new territory of the Ubii was Colonia Agrip- pina (^Cohi), and hence the people had the name of Agrippinenses, which was one of the causes why the Germans east of the Rhine hated them. They were considered as traitors to their country, who had assumed a new name. (Tacit. Hist. iv. 28.) IJorth of the Ubii on the west side of the Rhine were the Gugerni [Gugerni]; and south of them were the Treviri. [Coloxlv Agiiippina ; Aua UisioRUM.] [G. L.] UBIO'RUM ARA. [Ara Ubiorum.] UBISCI. [BiTURlGES Vivisci.] U'CENA (OijKiva), a town of the tribe of the Trocmi in Galatia. (Ptol. v. 4. § 9.) [L. S.] UCENI, a people of Gallia Narbonensis, who are mentioned in the trophy of the Alps quoted by Pliny (iii. 20), and placed between the Meduli and Caturiges. The site of these people is uncer- tain. D'Anville supposes that they were in that part of the mountain region of the Alps which con- VEDIANTII. tains the bourg d'Oisans. But other geographers place them in the district of Oze, or near H>:€z, both of which places are on the right bank of the river Romanche, which flows into the Drac, a branch of the Isere. (Ukert, CffZfoi, p. 317.) [G. L.] UCETIA, in Gallia Narbonensis, north of Nimes. This place is known only from the Roman remains which have been discovered there, and from the inscription vcetiae on a stone found at Nimes. The place is Uzes, north of the river Garden, from which place the water was brought to Ntmes by the aqueduct over the Gardon. [Nemausus.] Ucetia appears in the Notitia of the Provinces of Gallia under the name of Castrum Uceciense. Ucetia was a bishopric as early as the middle of the fifth cen- tury. [G. L.] UCHALICCEXSES {OvxiKikk^s, Ptol. iv. 6. § 20), an Aethiopian tribe in the interior of Li- bya. [T. H. D.] UCHEIMERIUM (Ouxei/^fpiov, Procop. B. Goth. iv. 14), a mountain fortress in the Regio Lazica, in Colchis. '[T. H. D.] UCIA (OijKia, Ptol. ii. 4. § 13), a town of the Turdetani in Lusitania. [T. H. D.] UCIENSE, a town in Hispania Baetica, on the road from Corduba to Castulo. {liin. Ant. p. 403.) Variously identified with Marmolejo, Andujar, and S. Julian. [T. H. D.] UCUBIS, a place in Hispania Baetica, in the neighbourhood of Corduba and the Flumen Salsum. (Hirt. B. H. 7.) According to Ukert (ii. pt. i. p. 361) between Osuna and Antequera. [T. H. D] UCULTUNIACUM. [Curgia.] UDAE (0?'5a(, Ptol. v. 9. § 23), a people of Asiatic Sarmatia ou the Caspian sea. They are probably the people mentioned under the name of Udini by Pliny (vi. 12. s. 15). They appear to have derived their name from the river Udon. [T. H. D.] UDON {Ovdaiv, Ptol. V. 9. § 12), a river of Asiatic Sarmatia, which rises in the Caucasus and falls into the Caspian sea between the Rha and the Alonta. Most probably the modern Kuma. [J. R.] UDUBA. [TuRULis.] UDURA {Ovhovpa, Ptol. ii 6. § 72), a town of the Jaccetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, probably the modern Cardona. [T. H. D.] VECTA or VECTIS (^Ov-nKris, Ptol. ii. 3. § 33), an island on the S. coast of Britannia Romana, lying opposite to the Portus Magnus (^Portsmouth). It was known to the Romans before their conquest of Britain, through the ]Iassiliots, who had here a sta- tion for their tin trade. (Diod. v. 22, 38.) At that time the channel between the island and the mainland become almost dry at ebb tide, so that the Britons carried their tin in carts to the island. It was first conquered by Vespasian, in the reign of Claudius. (Suet. Fes;j. 4.) '^offiie Isle of Wight. (Cf. Itin. Ant. p. 509; Eum. Paw. Const. 15; Mela, iii. 6; Plin. iv. 16. s. 30.) [T. H. D.] VECTURIONES, a subdivision of the Picts in Britannia Barbara, according to Ammianus (xxvii, 8). [T. II. D.] VEDIANTII (OJeSwVTjoi, Ptol. iii. 1. § 41), a Ligurian tribe, who inhabited the foot of the Maritime Alps near the mouth of the Var. Both Pliny (iii. 5. s. 7) and Ptolemy assign to them the town of Ceme- nelium or Cimiez near Nice: the latter also includes in their territory Sanitium; but this must certainly be a mistake, that town, which answers to the modern Senez, being far off to the J^W. (D'Anville, Geogr. des a auks', I'. 6S2.) [E. H. B.]