Vicentia, or Vicetia, a town of Cisalpine Gaul, at the north-west of the Adriatic. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 3.
Victor Sextus Aurelius, a writer in the age of Constantius. He gave the world a concise history of the Roman emperors, from the age of Augustus to his own time, or A.D. 360. He also wrote an abridgment of the Roman history before the age of Julius Cæsar, which is now extant, and ascribed by different authors to Cornelius Nepos, to Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny, &c. Victor was greatly esteemed by the emperors, and honoured with the consulship. The best editions of Victor are that of Pitiscus, 8vo, Utrecht, 1696; and that of Artnzenius, 4to, Amsterdam, 1733.
Victōria, one of the deities of the Romans, called by the Greeks Nice, supposed to be the daughter of the giant Pallas, or of Titan and Styx. The goddess of victory was sister to Strength and Valour, and was one of the attendants of Jupiter. She was greatly honoured by the Greeks, particularly at Athens. Sylla raised her a temple at Rome, and instituted festivals in her honour. She was represented with wings, crowned with laurel, and holding the branch of a palm tree in her hand. A golden statue of this goddess, weighing 320 pounds, was presented to the Romans by Hiero king of Syracuse, and deposited in the temple of Jupiter, on the Capitoline hill. Livy, bk. 22.—Varro, de Lingua Latina.—Hesiod, Theogony.—Hyginus, preface to fables.—Suetonius.
Victoriæ mons, a place of Spain at the mouth of the Iberus. Livy, bk. 24, ch. 41.
Victōrius, a man of Aquitain, who, A.D. 463, invented the paschal cycle of 532 years.
Victorīna, a celebrated matron who placed herself at the head of the Roman armies, and made war against the emperor Gallienus. Her son Victorinus, and her grandson of the same name, were declared emperors, but when they were assassinated, Victorina invested with the imperial purple one of her favourites called Tetricus. She was some time after poisoned, A.D. 269, and according to some by Tetricus himself.
Victorīnus, a christian writer, who composed a worthless epic poem on the death of the seven children mentioned in the Maccabees, and distinguished himself more by the active part he took in his writings against the Arians.
Victumviæ, a small town of Insubria near Placentia. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 45.
Vicus longus, a street at Rome, where an altar was raised to the goddess Pudicitia, or the modesty of the plebeians. Livy, bk. 10, ch. 23.——Cyprius, a place on the Esquiline hill, where the Sabines dwelt.
Viducasses, a people of Normandy. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 18.