. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . l wars. (Id. Ep. ii. 2.) We hear nothing of Vecusia under the RomanEmpire, but it is certain from the Liber Coloniarum,which mentions it among the Civitates Apuliae, andfrom the Itineraries, that it continued to exist as acity, and apparently one of the most considerable inthis part of Italy. (Ptol. iii. 1. § 73 ; Lib. 210, 261; /tin. Ant. pp. 104. 113, 121 ; ) This is further confirmed by inscriptions,in one of which it is called splendida civitas Venu-sinorum. (Mommsen, /. Ii. N. 706.) It retainedthe same consideration throughout
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . l wars. (Id. Ep. ii. 2.) We hear nothing of Vecusia under the RomanEmpire, but it is certain from the Liber Coloniarum,which mentions it among the Civitates Apuliae, andfrom the Itineraries, that it continued to exist as acity, and apparently one of the most considerable inthis part of Italy. (Ptol. iii. 1. § 73 ; Lib. 210, 261; /tin. Ant. pp. 104. 113, 121 ; ) This is further confirmed by inscriptions,in one of which it is called splendida civitas Venu-sinorum. (Mommsen, /. Ii. N. 706.) It retainedthe same consideration throughout the middle ages,and is still an episcopal city with about 6000 inha-bitants. Its antiquities have been illustrated with aprofusion of erudition by Italian writers, but it hastew ancient remains of much interest; though frag-ments of ancient edifices, mosaic pavements, & been found on the site, as well as numerous in-acriptkma. These last have been collected and pub-lished by Mons. Lupoli, in his Marmora Yenusina VERCELLAE. 1277. COIN OK VhM -IA. (added as an appendix to the Iter Venvsinum, , 1797). and more recently by Slommsen, inhis Inscriptions Keijni Neapolitan* (pp. 39—48).Concerning the antiquities of Venusia in general,see the work of Lupoli above quoted, and that of!Cimaglia (Antiquitaks Ycnusinae, 4to. ) [E. II. B.] VEPITENUM orVIPlTENDM, a place in thedistrict occupied by the Venostes in Bhaatia, betweenVeldidena and Tridentum. (It. Ant. pp. 275, 280 ;Tab. Ptrut.) Its modem representative is, in allpiobability, the town of Sttrzing on the Eitaek, atthe foot of the Brenntr. [L. S. | VERAGRI (Ovdpaypoi). The Veragri are placedby Caesar (B. G. iii. 1, 6) in the Yalais of Swit-zerland between the Nantuates and the Seduni,[Nanitates: Sbduhi]. Their town was Octodurus(Mavtiyuy). whence the Veragri are called Octodu-renses by Pliny [Octodukvs]. Dion Cassius(xxxix. 5), using Caesar as he generally used him,says that the Veragri extended from t
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