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 VOMANUS. VOJIANUS ( Vomano), a river of Picennm, which rises in the lofty group of the Apennines now known as the Gran Sasso dUtaUa, and flows into tlie Adriatic, after passing within a few miles to the N. of the city of Adria (^Atri). Its name is mentioned by Pliny only (iii. 13. § 18). [E. H. B.] VORDENSES, in Gallia Narbonensis, an ethnic name which occurs in an inscription found at AjJt, the site of Apta Julia [Apta Julia]. The in- scription states that the " Vordenses pagani " de- dicate this monument to their patronus, who is designated "iiiivir" of the Colonia Apta. The place is supposed to be Gordes, which is contiguous to the diocese of Apt, and in that of Cavaillon. The change of Vord into Gord is easily explained. [Va- PINCUM.] (D'Anville, Notice, 4'C ) [G. L.] VOREDA, a town of the Brigantes in Britannia Romana, on the road from Cataracton to Lugu- vallium. (^Jtin. Ant. p. 467.) It is variously iden- tified with Old Penrith, Whelp Castle, and Coal Tlills. By the Geogr. Rav. (v. 31) it is called Bereda. [T. H. D.] VORGA'NIUM (OvopyAvwv), in Gallia Lugdu- nensis, the capital of the OsLsmii [Osismii], a Celtic people in the north-west part of Bretagne (Ptol. ii. 8. § 5). This seems to be the same place as the Vorginum of the Table ; and it appears on a route which leads from the capital of the Namnetes through the capital of the Veneti, and ends on the coast at Gesocribate, or Gesobrivate, as some would write it. Between the capital of the Veneti and Vorginum is Sulis, supposed to be at the junction of the Siiel and the Blavet [Sulis]. From Sulis to Vorginum the distance is marked xxiiii., and this brings us to a place named Karhez (D'Anville). But all this is very un- certain. Others fix Vorginum at a place named Gueniene [G. L.] VORO'GIUM, in Gallia, is placed in the table on a road from Augustonemetum (^Clermont Ferrand) through Aquae Calidae {Vichy) {o Anoiea. (^AvriUi). The distance is marked viii. from Aquae Calidae, and xiiii. from Vorogium to Ariolica. There is a place named Vouroux, which is the same name as Vorogium. Vouroux is near the small town of Varennes, and somewhat nearer to the banks of the Allier. Tiie direct distance from the springs of Vichy to Varennes is somewhat less than the Itin. distance of viii. Gallic leagues, but the 8 leagues are not more than we may assign to the distance from Vichy to Varennes along the river. But the Itin. distance from Vorogium to Ariolica is somewhat too large compared with the real distance. (D'Anville, Notice, §-c.) [G. L.] VOSALIA. [VosAVA.] VOSAVA or VOSAVIA, in North Gallia, is placed by the Table on the Roman road along the west bank of the Rhine, and between Bontobrice or Baudobrica {Boppart) [Baudobrica] and Bin- gium (^Bingen). It stands half-way between these places and at the distance of viiii. Vosava is Oher- wesel on the Rhine, north of Bingen; and it is ahno.st certain, as D'Anville suggests, that the name is erroneously written in the Table, and that it should be Vosalia. [G. L.] VO'SEGUS {Vogesen, Vasgau, Vosges). The form Vosegus has better authority than Vogesns (Schneider's Caesar, B. GAv. 10) ; and the modern name also is in favour of the form Vosegus. Lucan is sometimes (juoted as authority for the form Vogesus : UEBA. 1325 " Cnstraquc quae Vogesi curvam super ardua rupem Pagnaces pictis cohibebant Lingonas armis." {Pharsal. i. 397.) The name is Bocri]Kov in the Greek version of the Commentaries. Caesar says that the Mosa (Maas) rises in the Vosegus, by which he means that the hills in which the Maas rises belong to the Vosges. But he says no more of this range. The battle with Ariovistns, B. c. 58, was fought between the southern extremity of the Vosges and the Rhine, but Caesar (JS. G. i. 43, 48) gives no name to the range under which Ariovistus encamped in the great plain between the Vosges and the Rhine. D'Anville observes that an inscription in honour of the god Vosegus was found at Berg-Zahern on the confines of ^Z^aceand the Palatinate, which proves that the name Vosegus extended as far as that place. It seems likely that the name was given to the whole range now called Vosges, which may be considered as extending from the depression in which is formed the canal of the Rhone and Rhine, between Befort and Altkirch, to the bend of the Rhine between Mainz and Bingen, a distance of above 170 miles. The range of the Vosges is parallel to the Rhine. The hilly country of the Faucilles in which the Maas rises is west of the range to which the name of Vosges is now given. The Vosges are partly in France, and partly in Rhenish Bavaria and Hesse Darm- stadt. The territory of the Sequani originally extended to the Rhine, and the southern part of the Vosges was therefore included in their limits. North of the Sequani and west of the Vosges were the Leuci and Mediomatrici ; and east of the Vosges and between the Vosges and the Rhine were the Rauraci, Triboci, Nemetes, Vangiones, and Caracates. In the Table the Silva Vosagus is marked as a long forest on the west side of the Rhine. Pliny (xvi. 39) also speaks of the range of the Vosegus as containing timber. [G. L.] UR, a castle of the Persians mentioned by Ammi- anus Marcellinus (xxv. 8), in his account of the war between Julian and the Persians. It must havo been situated in Mesopotamia, at no great distance from Hatra {Al-Hathr). It has been generally supposed that Ur is the same place as that men- tioned in Genesis (xi. 28); but the recent researches of Colonel Rawlinson have demonstrated that the Ur whence Abraham started was situated in the S. part of Babylonia, at a place now called Muqeher. (Journ. Roy. As. Soc. 185.5.) [V.] URANO'POLIS (OlipavSTToAis), a town in the peninsula Acte of Chalcidice in Macedonia, of which we know nothing, except that it was founded by Alcx- archus, the brother of Cassander, king of JIacedonia (Athen. iii. p. 98; Plin. iv. 10. s. 17). As Pliny does not mention Sane in his list of the towns of Acte, it has been conjectured by Leake that Urano- polis occujjied the site of Sane. (No7'theiti Greece, vol. iii. p. 149.) URAXO'POLTS (OhpavSirnMs), a town of Pi- sidia, in the district ?)f Cabalia, to the north-west of Termessus, and south-east of Isionda. (Ptol. v. 5. § 6.) [L. S.] URBA, a town of Gallia, in the territory of the Helvctii. It is placed in the Antonino Itin. be- tween Lacus Lausonius and Ariolica [Auioltca], xviii. from Lacus Lausonius and xxiiii. from Ario- lica. Urba is Orbe in the Swiss Canton Waadt or Pays de Vaud, on the road from the Lake of Nevf-