Via Æmylia, a celebrated road, made by the consul Marcus Æmylius Lepidus, A.U.C. 567. It led with the Flaminian road to Aquileia. There was also another of the same name in Etruria, which led from Pisæ to Dertona.——Appia, was made by the censor Appius, and led from Rome to Capua, and from Capua to Brundusium, to the distance of 350 miles, which the Romans call a five days’ journey. It passed successively through the towns and stages of Aricia, Forum Appii, Tarracina, Fundi, Minturnæ, Sinuessa, Capua, Caudium, Beneventum, Equotuticum, Herdonia, Canusium, Barium, Egnatia, to Brundusium. It was called, by way of eminence, regina viarum, made so strong, and the stones so well cemented together, that it remained entire for many hundred years. Some parts of it are still to be seen in the neighbourhood of Naples. Appius carried it only 130 miles, as far as Capua, A.U.C. 442, and it was finished as far as Brundusium by Augustus.——There was also another road called Minucia or Numicia, which led to Brundusium, but by what places is now uncertain.——Flaminia, was made by the censor Flaminius, A.U.C. 533. It led from the Campus Martius to the modern town of Rimini, on the Adriatic, through the country of the Osci and Etrurians, at the distance of about 360 miles.——Lata, one of the ancient streets of Rome.——Valeria, led from Rome to the country of the Marsi, through the territories of the Sabines. There were, besides, many streets and roads of inferior note, such as the Aurelia, Cassia, Campania, Ardentina, Labicana, Domitiana, Ostiensis, Prænestina, &c., all of which were made and constantly kept in repair at the public expense.
Viadrus, the classical name of the Oder, which rises in Moravia, and falls by three mouths into the Baltic. Ptolemy.
Vibidia, one of the vestal virgins in the favour of Messalina, &c. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 11, ch. 32.
Vibidius, a friend of Mæcenas. Horace, bk. 2, satire 8, li. 22.
Vibius, a Roman who refused to pay any attention to Cicero when banished, though he had received from him the most unbounded favours.——Siculus. See: [Sica].——A proconsul of Spain, banished for ill conduct.——A Roman knight accused of extortion in Africa, and banished.——A man who poisoned himself at Capua.——Sequester, a Latin writer, whose treatise de Fluminibus, &c., is best edited by Oberlin, 8vo, Strasbourg, 1778.
Vibo, a town of Lucania, anciently called Hipponium and Hippo. Cicero. Letters to Atticus, bk. 3, ch. 3.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.——A town of Spain,——of the Brutii.
Vibulēnus Agrippa, a Roman knight accused of treason. He attempted to poison himself, and was strangled in prison, though almost dead. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 6, ch. 40.——A mutinous soldier in the army of Germanicus, &c.
Vibullius Rufus, a friend of Pompey, taken by Cæsar, &c. Plutarch.—Cicero, Letters.——A pretor in Nero’s reign.
Vica Pota, a goddess at Rome, who presided over victory (à vincere et potiri). Livy, bk. 2, ch. 7.
Vicellius, a friend of Galba, who brought him news of Nero’s death.