Volumnus and Volumna, two deities who presided over the will. They were chiefly invoked at marriages to preserve concord between the husband and wife. They were particularly worshipped by the Etrurians. Livy, bk. 4, ch. 61.
T. Volumnius, a Roman famous for his friendship towards Marcus Lucullus, whom Marcus Antony had put to death. His great lamentations were the cause that he was dragged to the triumvir, of whom he demanded to be conducted to the body of his friend, and there to be put to death. His request was easily granted. Livy, bk. 124, ch. 20.——A mimic whom Brutus put to death.——An Etrurian who wrote tragedies in his own native language.——A consul who defeated the Samnites and the Etrurians, &c. Livy, bk. 9.——A friend of Marcus Brutus. He was preserved when that great republican killed himself, and he wrote an account of his death and of his actions, from which Plutarch selected some remarks.——A prefect of Syria, B.C. 11.——A Roman knight put to death by Catiline.
Voluptas and Volupia, the goddess of sensual pleasures, worshipped at Rome, where she had a temple. She was represented as a young and beautiful woman, well dressed, and elegantly adorned, seated on a throne, and having virtue under her feet. Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 2, ch. 25.—Macrobius, bk. 1, ch. 10.—Augustine, City of God, bk. 4, ch. 8.
Caius Volusēnus, a military tribune in Cæsar’s army, &c. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 3.
Volusiānus, a Roman taken as colleague on the imperial throne, by his father Gallus. He was killed by his soldiers.
Vŏlŭsius, a poet of Patavia, who wrote, like Ennius, the annals of Rome in verse. Seneca, ltr. 93.—Catullus, bk. 96, li. 7.——Saturninus, a governor of Rome, who died in the 93rd year of his age, beloved and respected, under Nero. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 13.——Caius, a soldier at the siege of Cremona, &c.——One of Nero’s officers. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 15, ch. 51.
Volusus, a friend of Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 11, li. 463.
Volux, a son of Bocchus, whom the Romans defeated. Sylla suspected his fidelity, &c. Sallust, Jugurthine War, ch. 105.
Vomanus, a river of Picenum in Italy. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 13.—Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 438.
Vonōnes, a king of Parthia expelled by his subjects, and afterwards placed on the throne of Armenia. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 14.——Another king of Armenia.——A man made king of Parthia by Augustus.