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 1310 VILLA FAUSTINL had the privilege of reckoning their roads from the capital to the limit of their territories, -Klun a Fines often occurs. [Fines.] (D'Anville, Notice, cfc.) [G.L.] VILLA FAUSTINI, a place of the Iceni in Bri- tannia Romana, on the road from Londinium to the northern boundary wall. (^Itin. Ant. ^.474.) Cam- den (p. 438) identifies it with St. EdmumVs Bury; but others have placed it near Thetford, at Wulpit, and at Tornlmm Parva. [T. H. D.] VIMINA'CIUM {OvifiivdKiov, Ptol. iii. 9. § 3), an important town of Jloesia Superior, lying some- what E. of the mouth of the Margus, and connected with Constantinople by a highroad which passed through Naissus. {Itin. Ant. p. 133; Itin. Hiero- sol. p. 564.) It was the head-quarters of the Legio Vii. Claudia. (76.; cf. Eutrop. ix. 13 ; Procop. de Aed. iv. 6. p. 287 ; Theophyh i. 5, viii. 12, &c.) By the later Greeks the name is written BifJLivd.Ki.ov. Variously identified with Ram or Rama, and Kosto- lacz. (Cf. Marsili, Danub. ii. p. 10 ; Mannert, vii. p. 78.) [T. H. D.] VIMINA'CIUM {pvifji.iv6.Kiov, Ptol. ii. 6. § 50), a town of the Vaccaei in Hispania Tarraconensis, to the E. of Pallancia. {Itin. Ant. pp. 449, 453.) Identified with Valderaduci or Beceril. [T. H. D.] VINCEIA, a town of Moesia Superior, between Mons Aureus and Margum, and 6 miles from the former. {Itin. Ant. p. 132) In the Itin. Iliero- sol. (p. 564) it is called Vingeius or Vingeium. Lapie identifies it with Semendria. [T. H. D.] VINCUM. [BiNGiUM.] VINDA {OmvS'ia, Ptol. v. 4. § 7), a place in Galatia, between Pessinus and Ancyra, near the modern Ilidja. {It. Ant. pp. 201, 202.) [L. S.] VINDALUM, or VINDALIUM {OvivSaov), in Gallia Narbonensis, a place where Domitius Aheno- barbus defeated the Allobroges, b. c. 121. [Gallia Transalpina, Vol. I. p. 954.] Strabo (iv. p. 185) says that Vindalum is at the confluence of the Sul- gas [SuLGAs] and the Rhvne. Floras (iii. 2) names this river Vindalicus or Vindelicus. The Sulgas is the Sorgiie. D'Anville, relying, as he often does, on a mere resemblance of name, would place Vindalium at Fet/eTie, which is about a mile from the junction of the Sorgue and the Rhvne. Others would place Vindalium at Port de la Traille, the place where the Sorgzi e }oins the Rhone. [G. L.] VINDANA POliTUS {OuivSava M/j-w), a bay on the north-west coast of Gallia (Ptol. ii. 8. § 1), and placed by Ptolemy between the mouth of the Herius [Herius] and the Promontorium Gobaeum. D'An- ville supposes the Vindana to be the bay of Morhi- Imn, at the bottom of which was the capital of the Veneti, now Vannes. Other geographers have made other guesses : the bay of Doxiarnez, the mouth of the Blavet, and others still. [G. L.] VINDELEIA (Ouei'SeAeia, Ptoh ii. 6. § 53), a town of the Autrigones in Hispania Tarraconensis, between Virovesca and Deobriga. {Itin. A nt. p. 454.) Probably Pancorho. [T. H. D.] VINDELl'CIA {OmvSeKia or Biv5eK'ia), the most western of the four Danubian provinces of the Roman empire. In the time of Augustus, it formed a distinct province by itself, but towards the end of the first century after Christ it was united with Ehaetia. At a still later period the two countries were again separated, and Ehaetia Proper appears under the name Ehaetia Prima, and Vindelicia under that of Ehaetia Secunda. We have here to speak only of the latter or Vindelicia, as it appears VINDILIS INSULA. in the time of Augustus, when it was hounded on the north by Germania Magna, that is, by the Danube and the Vallum Hadriani or Limes, on the west by the territory of the Helvetii, on the south by Ehaetia, and on the east by Noricum, from which it was separated by the river Oenus {Imi). The line of demarcation between Vindelicia and Ehaetia is not mentioned anywhere, but was in all probability formed by the ridge of the Ehaetian Alps. Vindelicia accordingly embraced the north- eastern parts of Sioitzerland, the south-eastern part of Baden, the southern part of Wiirtemberg and Bavaria, and the northern part of Tirol. (Ptol. ii. 12. § 1, 13. § 1, viii. 7. § 1 ; Sext. Ruf. 8 ; Aga- them. ii. 4.) The country is for the most part flat, and only its southern parts are traversed by off- shoots of the Ehaetian Alps. As to the products of Vindelicia in ancient times, we have scarcely any information, though we are told by Dion Cassias (liv. 22) that its inhabitants carried on agriculture, and by other authors that the country was very fertile. (Solin. 21 ; Isid. Orig. i. 4.) ' The chief rivers of Vindelicia are : the Danube, the upper part of which flowed through the country, and farther down formed its boundary. All the others are Alpine rivers and tributaries of the Danube, such as the Ilargus, Guntia, Licus, Virdo, Isarus, and the Oenus, which separated Vindelicia from Noricum. The Lacus Brigantinus in the south- west also belonged to Vindelicia. The inhabitants of Vindelicia, the Vindelici, were a kindred race of the Ehaeti, and in the time of Augustus certainly Celts, not Germans, as some have supposed. Their name contains the Celtic root Vind, which also occurs in several other Celtic names, such as Vindobona, Vindomagus, Vindonissa, and others. (Zeuss, Die Deutschen, p. 228, foil. ; Die- fenbach, Celiica, ii. 1. p. 134, foil.) Others, with- out assuming that the Vindelicians were Germans, believe that their name is connected with the German Ve7iden, and that it was used as a general desig- nation for nations or tribes that were not Germans, whence the modern Wend and also the name of the Vandali or Vindili. (Comp. Horat. Carm. iv. 4. 18 ; Strab. iv. pp. 193, 207, vii. pp. 293, 313; Tac. Aim. ii. 17, Hi^t. iii. 5 ; Suet. Aug. 21 ; Veil. Pat. ii. 39 ; Plin. iii. 24.) After their subjugation by Tiberius, many of them were transplanted into other countries. (Strab. vii. p. 207 ; Dion Cass. liv. 22.) The principal tribes into which, according to Strabo, Pliny, and Ptolemy, the Vindehci were divided, were : the Brigantii, Runicatae, Leuni, Con- suantae, Benlauni, Breuni, and Licatii. Their more important towns were : Augusta Vindelicorum, their capital, Eeginum, Arbor Felix, Brigantium, Vemania, Campodunum, Abodiacum, Abusina, Quiu- tiana Castra, Batava Castra, Vallatum, Isinisca, Pons Oeni, and a few others, which are treated of in separate articles. (Comp. Eayser, Ber Oberdonau- kreis Bayeriis unter den Rmnern, Augsburg, 1830 ; J. Becker, Drusus und die Vindelicier, in Schneide- win's Philologus, v. p. 119, foil.) [L. S.] VINDENAE, a place in Upper Moesia. on the road from Naissus to Scodra. {Tab. Pent.) [T. H. D.] VI'NDEEIS (Oinj/Sepios -rroraixov iK§oai, Ptol. ii. 2. § 8), a little river on the E. coast of Hibernia, perhaps that which falls into Strangford Bag ; but Camden (p. 1403) places it more to the N. near Carriclcfergus. [T. H. D.] VINDILI. [Vandall] VINDILIS INSULA, on the Atlantic coast of