Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ite and existing remains ofVelia are described by Miinter, Velia in Lucanien,8vo. Altona, 1818, pp. 15—20, and by the Due deLuvnes, in the Annali deW Instituto, 1829, —386.) It is certain that as a Greek colony Velia neverrose to a par with the more opulent and flourihhingcities of Magna Graecia. Its chief celebrity in an-cient times was derived from its celebrated school ofphilosophy, which was universally known as theEleatic school. Its founder Xenophanes was indeeda native of Colophon, but had established himself atVelia, and wrote a long poem
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . ite and existing remains ofVelia are described by Miinter, Velia in Lucanien,8vo. Altona, 1818, pp. 15—20, and by the Due deLuvnes, in the Annali deW Instituto, 1829, —386.) It is certain that as a Greek colony Velia neverrose to a par with the more opulent and flourihhingcities of Magna Graecia. Its chief celebrity in an-cient times was derived from its celebrated school ofphilosophy, which was universally known as theEleatic school. Its founder Xenophanes was indeeda native of Colophon, but had established himself atVelia, and wrote a long poem, in which he celebratedthe foundation of that city. (Diog. Laert. ix. 2. §20.) His distinguished successors Parmenides andZeno were both of them born at Velia, and the samething is asserted by some writers of Leucippus, thefounder of the atomic theory, though others repre-sent him as a native of Abdera or Melos. HenceDiogenes Laertius terms Velia an inconsiderablecity, but capable of producing^reat men (ix. 5. §28). [E. H. B.] ?. COIN OF VELIA. VELINUS (^Velino), a considerable river ofCentral Italy, which has its sources in the loftygroup of the Apennines between Nursia (^Norcia)and Interocrea (^Antrodoco). Its actual source isin the immediate neighbourhood of the ancientFalacrinum, the birthplace of Vespasian, wliere anold church still bears the name of Sta Maria diFonte Velino. The upper part of its course isfrom N. to S.; but near Ani7-oduco it turns abruptlyto the W., pursues that direction as far as Rieti,and thence flows about NNW. till it discharges itswaters into the Nar (Aera) about 3 miles aboveTerui (Interamna). Just before reaching thatriver it turms the celebrated cascade now known asthe Falls of Terni or Cascata delle waterfall is in its present form wholly arti-ficial. It was first formed by M. Curius Dentatus,who opened an artificial channel for the waters ofthe Velinus, and thus carried off a considerablepart of the Lacus Velinus, which pre
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