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 VIADUS. from Rome to that sea, served to coimect the Valerian, Salarian, and Flamiiiian Ways. For this reason it may be useful to set down here the stations and distances along this line of coast, from the mouth of the Aternus to Ancona. They are thus given in the Antonine Itinerary (p. 313): — From the Ostia Aterni (Pescara) to Hadria (^Atri). . - xvi. M.p. Castrum Novum (near Giulia Nuova). - - XV. Castrum Truentium (at the mouth of the Tronto) - - - xii. Castellum Firmanum (Porto di Fermo). - . . xxiv. Potentia (Potenza) - ■. . xxii. Numana (Humana) - - - x. Ancona - viii. Here the coast-road joined one branch of the Via Flaminia ; and the distances from Ancona to Arimi- num will be found in the article on that road. [Via Flaminia.] The Via Valeria, like the Aemilia and Flaminia, gave name to one of the later divisions or provinces of Italy under the Roman Empire, which was called Valeria. It comprised the land of the Marsi, Peligni, and Vestini, through which the road really passed, as ■well as the land of the Sabines, which was traversed by the Via Salaria. [Italia, p. 93.] [E. H. B.] VIADUS (Oi!ia5os), a river of Germany, west of the Vistula, mentioned by both Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 2) and Marcianus (p. .53) as flowing into the Mare Suevicum or Baltic. Neither of these authors mentions either its source or its course, but it is generally assumed to be the Oder. Ptolemy in another passage (ii. 11. § 1-5) mentions, according to the common reading, a river 'laSoua, which some regard as a tributary of the Viadus, and others as a name of the upper Viadus ; but Wilberg, the latest editor of Ptolemy, treating 'laSoua as a corrupt reading, has altered it to Oviatos. [L. S.] VIANA (Oymw.), a place in Rhaetia, on the road from Veniania to Augusta Vindelicorum (Ptol. ii. 12. § 4) ; it is marked in the Peutinger Table as Viaca, and its site is now occupied by a place called Wagech [L. S.] VIATIA. [Beatia.] VIBI FORUM. [FoRTjM Vibii.] VIBINUM, or VIBONIU.M {^IgJoviov. Bovino), a town of Apulia, in the interior of that country, 7 miles S. of Aecae (Troja') and 15 from Luceria. Its correct name is given by Pliny, who enumerates the Vibinates among the municipal communities of Apulia, and by inscriptions which are still extant at Bovino, an episcopal town situated on one of the lower slopes of the Apennines, on the right of the river Cervaro (Cerbalus). (Plin. iii. 11. s. 16; Holsten, Not. ad Cluver. p. 272.) There is no doubt that it is the place of which the name is corruptly written in Ptnlemy, Vibarnum (Oi)i- Sapvov, iii. 1. § 72), and which is called by Polybius Vibonium (^ISwviov, for which we should probably read OviSwviov, Schweigh. ad he). The latter author distinctly places it among the Daunian Apu- lians, and mentions that Hannibal established liis camp there, and thence laid waste the territory of Arpi and other neighbouring cities. (Polvb. iii. 88.) [E. H. B.] VIBIONES (Ovieiuves or 'IgiWej, Ptol. iii. 5. § 23), a people of European Sarmatia, on the N. side of Mount Bodinus, probably on the river hca or Jeviza in Volhi/nia. [T. H. D.] VICUS AQUARIUS. 1307 VIBO, VIBO VALENTIA. [Hippoxium.] VIBONENSIS SINUS, another name of the Hip- poniates Sinus. [Hippoxium.] VICENTIA or VICETIA (0^.r«€Ti'a: Eth. Vi- centinus; Vicenza), a city of Venetia in the N. of Italy, situated between Patavium and Verona, and dis- tant 22 miles from the former and 33 from the latter city (Ilin. Ant. p. 128 ; It'm. Bier. p. 559). No mention is found of Vicentia before the Roman con- quest of this part of Italy, and the earliest record of its existence is an inscription of the republican period which informs us that the limits between its territory and that of the Atestini were fixed and determined by the proconsul Sex. Atilius Saranus in B.C. 136. (Orell. Inscr. 3110.) It is also incidentally men- tioned as one of the municipal towns in the N. of Italy, in p. c. 43. (Cic. ad Fam. xi. 19.) Strabo notices it as one of the minor towns of Venetia, and Tacitus tells us that it was taken by Antonius, the general of Vespasian, on his advance from Patavium to Verona, in a manner that sufficiently proves it not to have been a town of any great importance. (Tac. Hist. iii. 8 ; Strab. v. p. 214.) But it always con- tinued to be a municipal town, and the younger Pliny mentions a cau.se in which the Vicentini were engaged before the Roman Senate in defence of their municipal rights. (Plin. Ep. v. 4, 14.) We learn also from Suetonius that it was the birthplace of the grammarian Remniius Palaemon. (Suet. Grumm. 23.) It is noticed also by both Pliny and Ptolemy, as well as in the Itineraries, and evidently continued till near the close of the Roman Empire, to be a mu- nicipal town of some consideration, though very in- ferior to its opulent neighbours, Verona and Pata- vium. (Phn. iii. 19. s. 23 ; Ptol. iii. 1. § 30 ; Orell. Inscr. .3219). It suffered severely in common with most of the cities of Venetia from the invasion of Atiila (a.d. 452), by whom it was laid waste with fire and sword (Hist. Miscell. xv. p. 549), but it recovered from this catastrophe, and appears again under the Lombards as a considerable city of Venetia (P. Diac. ii. 14, v. 39). During the middle ages it became for some time an independent republic, and is still a populous city with about 30,000 inhabit- ants, but has no remains of antiquity. The name is written in inscriptions Vicetia, which has been restored by recent editors as the true read- ing both in Pliny and in Tacitus, but it is certain that before the close of the Roman Empire the name Vicentia (which has been retained in the modern Vicenza') was already in use. [E. H. B.] VICIANUM, a place in Jloesia (^Tab. Pent.), probably the Bep^aua of Procopius (de Aed. iv. 4. p. 281), and the present Nova lierda. [T. H. D.] VICTO'RIA (OviKToopia. Ptol. ii. .3. § 9), the most eastern nlace belonging to the Damnonii in Britannia Barbara. Camden (p. 1190) thinks that it is Bede's Caer Gtiidi, and that it stood on Inch- kcith Island, in the Frilh nf Forth; but llorsley is of opinion that it is A bernetlin, near Perth. [T. II. 1).] VICTO'RIAE JIONS, a mountain in Hispnniii Citerior, near the Iberus. (Liv. xxiv. 41.) [T. H. I).] VICTO'RIAE POKTUS, a liavcn belonging to •Tuliobriga, a town of the Cantabri in Ilispania Tar- raconensis. (Plin. iv. 20. s. 34.) Now Santonna. (Cf. Flore/,, F.Kp. Sagr. xxiv. p. 9.) [T. H. D.] VICTUMVIAE. [TiciNi's]. VICUS ALEXANDRI. [Via Ostikn.sis.] VICUS AMIUATIXU.S. [Amp.iatinis.] VICUS A(iUA'RIUS, a place in the territory of the Vaccaei in Ilispania Tarraconcnsis (/<m. Ant.