A Dialogue Concerning Oratory Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence Part 23

TRIMETUS, an island in the Adriatic; one of those which the ancients called _Insulae Diomedeae_; it still retains the name of _Tremiti_. It lies near the coast of the _Capitanate_, a province of the kingdom of Naples, on the Gulf of Venice.

TRIn.o.bANTES, a people of Britain, who inhabited _Middles.e.x_ and _Ess.e.x_.

TUBANTES, an ancient people of Germany, about _Westphalia_.

TUNGRI, a people of Belgia. Their city, according to Caesar, _Atuaca_; now _Tongeren_, in the bishopric of Liege.

TURONII, a people of ancient Gaul, inhabiting the east side of the _Ligeris_ (now the _Loire_). Hence the modern name of _Tours_.

TUSCULUM, a town of Latium, to the north of _Alba_, about twelve miles from Rome. It gave the name of _Tusculanum_ to Cicero's villa, where that great orator wrote his Tusculan Questions.

TYRUS, an ancient city of Phnicia, situate on an island so near the continent, that Alexander the Great formed it into a peninsula, by the mole or causey which he threw up during the siege. See Curtius, lib.

iv. s. 7.

U.

UBIAN ALTAR, an altar erected by the Ubii, on their removal to the western side of the Rhine, in honour of Augustus; but whether this was at a different place, or the town of the Ubii, is not known.

UBII, a people originally of Germany, but transplanted by Augustus to the west side of the Rhine, under the conduct of _Agrippa_. Their capital was then for a long time called _Oppidum Ubiorum_, and, at last, changed by the empress Agrippina to _Colonia Agrippinensis_; now _Cologne_, the capital of the electorate of that name.

UMBRIA, a division of Italy, to the south-east of Etruria, between the Adriatic and the Nar.

UNSINGIS, a river of Germany, running into the sea, near _Groningen_; now the _Hunsing_.

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, quaque 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_.

VERCELLae, now _Vercelli_ in Piedmont.

VERONA, now _Verona_, in the territory of Venice, on the _Adige_.

VESONTIUM, the capital of the Sequani; now _Besancon_, 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.

VIENNae, a city of Narbonese Gaul; now _Vienne_, in _Dauphine_.

VINDELICI, a people inhabiting the country of _Vindelicia_, near the Danube, with the Raehti 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 Caecina. 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 Seja.n.u.s; now _Bolseno_, or _Bolsenna_.

Z.

ZEUGMA, a town on the _Euphrates_, famous for a bridge over the river.

See Pliny, lib, v. s. 24.