Vacca, a town of Numidia. Sallust, Jugurthine War.——A river of Spain.
Vaccæi, a people at the north of Spain. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 5; bk. 35, ch. 7; bk. 46, ch. 47.
Vaccus, a general, &c. Livy, bk. 8, ch. 19.
Vacūna, a goddess at Rome, who presided over repose and leisure, as the word indicates (vacare). Her festivals were observed in the month of December. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 6, li. 307.—Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 10, li. 49.
Vadimōnis lacus, now Bassano, a lake of Etruria, whose waters were sulphureous. The Etrurians were defeated there by the Romans, and the Gauls by Dolabella. Livy, bk. 9, ch. 39.—Florus, bk. 1, ch. 13.—Pliny, bk. 8, ltr. 20.
Vaga, a town of Africa. Silius Italicus, bk. 3, li. 259.
Vagedrūsa, a river of Sicily between the towns of Camarina and Gela. Silius Italicus, bk. 14, li. 229.
Vagellius, an obscene lawyer of Mutina. Juvenal, satire 16, li. 23.
Vagēni, or Vagienni, a people of Liguria, at the sources of the Po, whose capital was called Augusta Vagiennorum. Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 606.
Vahālis, a river of modern Holland, now called the Waal. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 2, ch. 6.