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 1308 VICUS AQUENSIS. p. 439.) Variously identified with Vilhfajila and Villcwecco. [T. H. D ] VICUS AQUExXSIS. [Aquae Convenarum.] VICUS CAECl'LIUS, a place in Lusitania be- longing to tlie Vettones, on the road from Augusta Knierita to Caesaraugusta. (^Itin. Ant. p. 434.) Variously identified with Naralconcejo and S. Es- tevaii. [T. H. I).] VICUS CUMIN A'RIUS, a place of the Carpetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, somewhat S. of the Tagus, and E. of Toletum. Probably the modern St. Cruz de la Zarza, which is still renowned for its cumin. (Morales, ^rt^i/. p. 77; YIokz, Esp. Sagr. V. p. 22.) Others have identified it with Ocana a,nd Bayona. [T. H. D.J VICUS DOLUCEXSIS, in Gallia. The name occurs only on an inscription found at Ealinghen, near Boulogne, the ancient Gesoriacum [Geso- kiacum]. Vicus Dolucensis may be the old name of Halinghen. (Ukert, Gallien.) [G. L.] VICUS HE'LENAE, in Gallia, mentioned by Sidonius Apoilinaris {Major. Carm. 5. 216), iu tbe country of the Atrebates ; but geographers disagree about the site. Some place it at Htdin or Uesdin, on the Canche, but that river is in the country of the Moiini. Others fix it at a place called Lens, and others in other i)laces. (Ukert, Gallien.) [G. L.J VICUS ICTIMULORUM. [Ictimuli.] VICUS JULII or ATUHES, in Aquitania. The name Civitas Aturensium occurs in the Notitia of the Gallic Provinces. The name Atures also occurs in Sidonius Apoilinaris (ii. ep. 1). In the passage of Tibullus, cited under Atukus [Vol. I. p. 336] " Atur " is said to be a correction of Scaliger, the JISS. having Atax : — " Quem tremeret forti milite victus Atur ;" but the great critic is probably right. At the council of Agde (Agatha), A. D. 506, there is a subscription by a bishop " de civitate Vico Juli," and the same name occurs in Gregory of Tours. D'Anville affirms that Atures and Vicus Julii are the same place, relying on a Notice, where we read " Civitas Adtorensium Vico Juli." The name of the river Atur was also given to a people Atures, who have given their name to the town of Aire, which is on the Adour. (D'An'ille, No- tice, tjc.) [G- L.] VICUS JULIUS, in Gallia, is mentioned only in the Notitia of the Empire as a post under the orders of the general residing at Mogontiacum {Mainz). It is placed between Taliernae {Rhein-Zahern) and Nemetes {Speier). DAnville supposes Vicus Julius to be Germersheim, at the place where the Queich enters the Rliine. [G. L.] VICUS MATRINL [Via Cassia.] VICUS NOVUS. [Via Salauia.] VICUS SPACOKUM. [Spacorum Vicus ] VICUS VAKIANUS. [Via Aemilia, No. 5.] VIDRUS (GuiS/jos), a small coast river iu the west of Germany, between the Rhenus and the Amisia (Ptol. ii. 11. § 1 ; Jlarcian. p. 51), is pro- bably the same as the Wecht. [L. S.] VIDUA (OviSova, Ptol. ii. 2. § 2), a river on the N. coast ot Hibernia; according to Camden (p. 1411), the Crodagh. Others identify it with the Culmore. [T. H. D.] VIDUBIA or VIDUBIO, in Gallia, appears in the Table on a road from Andematunum {Langres) to Cabillio, which is C&>hrw {Chalon-sur-Hadm'). The road passes through File or Tile [Tile] to Vi- VIENNA. dubia. The distance in the Table between Tile and Chalon, 39 leagues, is correct : and it is 19 from Tile to Vidubia. D'Anville fixes Vidubia at St. Bernard, on the little river Vovge, a branch of the Saone. (D'Anville, Notice, cfc.) [G. L.] VIDUCASSES, a Celtic people in Gallia Lug- dunensis. Pliny (iv. 18) mentions them before the Bodiocasses, who are supposed to be the Baiocasses [Baiocasses]. Ptolemy (ii. 8. § 5) writes the name OCiSovKaicrioi or GuiSouKocrffioi, for we must assume them to be the Viducasses, though he places the Viducassii next to the Osismii, and the Veneti between the Viducassii and the Lexovii. But the Viducasses are between the Baiocasses and the Lexovii. The boundary between the Viducasses and the Baiocasses is indicated by a name Fins (Fines), which often occm's in French geography. There is a place named Vieux SW. of Cckii, in the department of Calvados, some distance from the left bank of the river Orne. This place is men- tioned in the titles or muniments of the neigh- bom-ing abbey of Fontenai, on the other side of the Orne, under the name of Videocae or Veocae, of which Vieux is a manifest corruption, as D'Anville shows, like Tricasses, Trecae, Troies, and Duro- casses, Drocae, Dreux. There is or was a stone preserved in the chateau of Torigni, in the arron- dissement of Saint Ld, in the department of Manclie, which contains the inscription ordo civitatis VIDVCAS. This marble, which was found at Vieux in 1580, is said to be the pedestal of a statue placed in the third century of our aera in honour of T. Sen- nius Solemnis. In the excavations made at Vieux in 1705 were found remains of public baths, of an aqueduct, a gynmasium, fragments of columns, of statues, and a great number of medals of the im- perial period, besides other remains. Inscriptions, of the date A. d 238, found on the spot show that this city had temples and altars erected to Diana, to Mars, and to Mercury. {Nouveaux Essais sur la Ville de Caen, par iM. L'Abbe Delarue, 2 vols. Caen, 1842, cited by Richard et Hocquart, Guid^ du Voyageur.) The name of this old town is unknown, but the remains show that it was a Roman city, probably built on a Celtic site ; and several Roman roads branch oft' from it. Some geographers suppose it to be the Araegenus or Araegenue of the Table, which D'Anville would fix at Bayeux. But the site of Araegenus is doubtful. [Augustodurus.] [G. L.] VIENNA (OvUva, OvUuva, : Eth. Viennensis : Vienne), a city of the Allobroges (Ptol. ii. 10. § 11) in Gallia Narbonensis, on the east bank of the Rhone; and the only town which Ptolemy assigns to the Allobroges. Stephanus (s. v. Biej'j'os) gives this form of the word and an Ethnic name Biewios, and he suggests also Bif wrjcrios and 'Buvva.'ios from a form BieVyrj. He has preserved a tradition about Vienna being a Cretan colony from Biennus in Crete ; and accordingly, if this were true, its origin is Hellenic. Dion Cassius (xlvi. 50) has a story about some people being expelled from Menna by the Allobroges, but he does not say who they were. [LUGDUNUM.] The position of Vienna is easily fixed by the name and by its being on the Roman road along the east side of the Rhone. There is a difficulty, however, as D'Anville observes, in the Antonine Itinerary, which makes Vienna xxiii. from Lug- dunum, and adds the remark that by the shorter cut it is xvi. The number xvi. occurs also in the