VERCELLÆ, now
_Vercelli_
in Piedmont.
Tacitus
VADA, a town on the left-hand side of the Nile, in the island of
Batavia.
VAHALIS, a branch of the Rhine; now the Waal. See Manners of the
Germans, s. 29. and note a.
VANGIONES, originally inhabitants of Germany, but afterwards settled
in Gaul; now the diocese of _Worms_.
VASCONES, a people who inhabited near the Pyrenees, occupying lands
both in Spain and Gaul.
VELABRUM, a place at Rome, between Mount Aventine and Mount Palatine,
generally under water, from the overflowing of the Tiber. Propertius
describes it elegantly, lib. iv. eleg. x.
Qua Velabra suo stagnabant flumine, quáque
Nauta per urbanas velificabat aquas.
VELINUS, a lake in the country of the Sabines.
VENETI, a people of Gallia Celtica, who inhabited what is now called
_Vannes_, in the south of Britanny, and also a considerable tract on
the other side of the Alps, extending from the Po along the Adriatic,
to the mouth of the _Ister_.
VERCELLÆ, now _Vercelli_ in Piedmont.
VERONA, now _Verona_, in the territory of Venice, on the _Adige_.
VESONTIUM, the capital of the Sequani; now _Besançon_, the chief city
of Burgundy.
VETERA, i. e. Vetera Castra. The Old Camp, which was a fortified
station for the legions; now _Santen_, in the duchy of Cleves, not far
from the Rhine.
VIA SALARIA, a road leading from the salt-works at Ostia to the
country of the Sabines.
VIADRUS, now the _Oder_, running through _Silesia_, _Brandenburg_,
_Pomerania_, and discharging itself into the Baltic.
VICETIA, now _Vicenza_, a town in the territory of Venice.
VIENNÆ, a city of Narbonese Gaul; now _Vienne_, in _Dauphiné_.
VINDELICI, a people inhabiting the country of _Vindelicia_, near the
Danube, with the Ræhti to the south; now part of _Bavaria_ and
_Suabia_.
VINDONISSA, now _Windisch_, in the canton of Bern, in Swisserland.
VISURGIS, a river of Germany, made famous by the slaughter of Varus
and his legions; now the _Weser_, running north between Westphalia and
Lower Saxony, into the German Sea.
VOCETIUS MONS, a mountain of the Helvetii, thought to be the roughest
part of Mount _Jura_, to which the Helvetii fled when defeated by
Cæcina. See Hist.
