. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Caistor. Here are traces of Romanremains. (Camden, p. 460.) [T. H. D.] VENTIA (Ovevria), in Gallia Narbonensis,a town of the Allobroges, mentioned only by DionCassius (xxxvii. 47) in his history of the warbetween the Allobroges and C. Pomptinus the go-vernor of Gallia Provincia (b. c. 62). ManliusLentinus, a legatus of Pomptinus, came upon thistown, but was driven from it. The place appearsto be near the Isara (here) from Dions narrative,and DAnville following De Valois supposes it to be , between Moirenc and S. Marcellin, at somedistanc
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Caistor. Here are traces of Romanremains. (Camden, p. 460.) [T. H. D.] VENTIA (Ovevria), in Gallia Narbonensis,a town of the Allobroges, mentioned only by DionCassius (xxxvii. 47) in his history of the warbetween the Allobroges and C. Pomptinus the go-vernor of Gallia Provincia (b. c. 62). ManliusLentinus, a legatus of Pomptinus, came upon thistown, but was driven from it. The place appearsto be near the Isara (here) from Dions narrative,and DAnville following De Valois supposes it to be , between Moirenc and S. Marcellin, at somedistance from the bank of the here. As Ventiais unknown otherwise, it may be a blunder of Dion,and the place may be Vienna. [G. L.] VENTISPONTE, a town in Hispania Baetica(Hirt. B. Hisp. 27), which appears from still extantinscriptions to have been not far from Iuente deDon Gonzalo. (Ukert, ii. pt. i. p. 368.) It appearson coins under the name of Ventipo. (Florez, p. 617 ; Eckhel, i. p. 31 ; Mionnet, i. p. 27 ;Sestini, p. 92.) [T. H. D.]. COIN OF VENTISPONTE OK VENTIPO. VENUSIA (Ovevovaia : Eth. Venusinus : Ve-nosa), a city of Apulia, situated on the Appian Way,about 10 miles S. of the river Aufidus. It nearlyadjoined the frontiers of Lucania, so that, accordingto Horace, himself a native of the place, it wasdoubtful whether it belonged properly to Lucania or toApulia, and the territory of the city, as assigned tcthe Roman colony, included a portion of that of bothnations. (Hor. Sat ii. I. 34, 35.) This statementof Horace leaves it doubtful to what people Venusiaoriginally belonged, though it is more probable thatit was an Apulian city, and that it received only anaccession of territory from Lucania. Later writers,indeed, distinctly assigned it to Apulia. ( 11. s. 16; Ptol. iii. 1. § 73; Lib. Colon, p. 210.)But no mention of it is found in history till theoccasion of its capture by the Roman consul L. Pos-tumius, in b. c. 262 (Dionys. Exc. Vales, p. 2335);when we are
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