Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Vada, or as it was called for distinctions sake,Vada Vol.\, constituted its sea-port. It?was not indeed a harbour or port in the strict senseof the word ; but a mere roadstead, where the shoals,from which it derived its name, afforded a goodanchorage and some shelter to shipping. Hence itwas, in the Eoman times, a frequented station forvessels proceeding along the coast of Etruria ( Quinct. 6: Plin. iii. 5. s 8; It In. Marit. p. 501);and Eutilius, in particular, has left us an exact de-scription of the locality (Rutil. Itin. i. 453—462).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Vada, or as it was called for distinctions sake,Vada Vol.\, constituted its sea-port. It?was not indeed a harbour or port in the strict senseof the word ; but a mere roadstead, where the shoals,from which it derived its name, afforded a goodanchorage and some shelter to shipping. Hence itwas, in the Eoman times, a frequented station forvessels proceeding along the coast of Etruria ( Quinct. 6: Plin. iii. 5. s 8; It In. Marit. p. 501);and Eutilius, in particular, has left us an exact de-scription of the locality (Rutil. Itin. i. 453—462).The site is still marked by a mediaeval tower on thecoast, called Torre di Vada. The coins of Volaterrae are numerous, and belongto the class called Aes Grave, from their large sizeand weight; but they are distinguished from allother Etruscan coins of this class by their havingthe name of the city in full; whence we learn thatthe Etruscan form of the name was Felathri,or Velathki, as on the one of which a figure isannexed. [E. H. B.]. COIN OF VOLCAE, a people of South Gallia, divided intoVolcae Arecomici and Volcae Tectosages (OJoAkoiApiK-0|Uioi, Oi5dA/faiTeKTooa76s,Ptol. ii. 10.§§9,10;OuwAicm ApiKO/xtaKot, Strabo). Ptulemy says that the Tectosages occupied themost western parts of the Narbonensis, and thatthese are their cities: Illiberis, Euscino, TolosaColonia, Cessero, Carcaso, Baeterrae, and XarboCoionia. Next to them and extending to the Rhune heplaces the Arecomici, or Aricomii, as the name isin Ptolemys text; and he assigns to the Arecomii VOLCEimi. only Vindomagns [Vindomagus] and NetoausuaColonia (JNismes). These two nations occupied allthe Provincia from the Rhone to its western limits;and if Livy is not mistaken (xxi. 26), at thetime of Hannibals invasion of Italy, the Volcae hadalso possessions east of the Rhone. The Cebenna {Cevennes) formed a naturalboundary between the Volcae Aiecomici and theGabali and Ruteni. As to the limits between theTecto
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