URBINUM, now _Urbino_, a city for ever famous for having given birth to Raphael, the celebrated painter. USIPII, or USIPETES, a people of Germany, who, after their expulsion by the Catti, settled near _Paderborn_. See Manners of the Germans, s. 32. and note a. USPE, a town in the territory of the _Siraci_; now destroyed. V. 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. i. s. 67. VOLSCI, a powerful people of ancient Latium, extending from _Antium_, their capital, to the _Upper Liris_, and the confines of _Campania_. VULSINII, or VOLSINII, a city of Etruria, the native place of Sejanus; now _Bolseno_, or _Bolsenna_. Z. ZEUGMA, a town on the _Euphrates_, famous for a bridge over the river. See Pliny, lib, v. s. 24. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence, by Cornelius Tacitus