A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

VETURIA GENS. VETUS. 1251
VE'TTIUS AGO'RIUS PRAETEXTA'- fers to the conclusion of a treaty, but what the
T US. [PRAETEXTATUS.] particular treaty may have been it is useless to
C. VE'TTIUS AQUILI'NUS, consul under conjecture. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 337.)
M. Aurelius A.D. 162, with Q. Junius Rusticus.
(Fasti; Cod. 5. tit. 25. s. 3.)
VE'TTIUS AQUILITNUS JUVENCUS.
[JUVENCUS.]
C. VE'TTIUS A'TTICUS, consul under Gor- I
dianus III. A. D. 342 with C. Asinius Praetextatus. (Fasti; Capitol. Gord. 26.)
L. VE'TTIUS L. L. AUCTUS, a Roman scenepainter, mentioned on an extant inscription. (Fabretti, Inscr. p. 335, No. 501; R. Rochette, COIN OF THE VETURIA GENS.
Lettie a' 1l. Schorn, p. 425, 2d. ed.) [P. S.]
VE'TTIUS BOLA'NUS. [BOLANUS.] VETU'RIUS MAMU'RIUS is said to have
VE'TTIUS CATO or SCATO. [SCATO.] been the armourer who made the eleven ancilia
P. VE'TTIUS CHILO, a Roman eques en- exactly like the one that was sent from heaven in
gaged in farming the taxes in Sicily, was a wit- the reign of Numa. His praises formed one of
ness acainst Verres. (Cic. Verr. iii. 71.) the chief subjects of the songs of the Salii. (Plut.
VE'TTIUS CHRYSIPPUS. [CHRYSIPPUS.] Nur. 13; Ov. Fast. iii. 384; Dionys. ii. 7];
VE'TTIUS ME'SSIUS. [MEssIUS.] Festus, s. v. Manz. Vet.; comp. Dict. of Antiq. s. v.
VE'TTIUS PRISCUS. [PRIscus.] Salii.) Even the ancients themselves doubted in
VE'TTIUS PRO'CULUS. [PRaocLUS.] the reality of his existence: Varro interpreted his
VE'TTIUS SABI'NUS. [SABINus.] name as equivalent to vetus menzoria (Varr. L. L.
VETTIUS SALASSUS. [SALASSUS.] vi. 46, ed. MUller.) Some modern writers regard
VE'TTIUS SCATO. [ScATO.] Mamurius Veturius as an Etruscan artist, because
VE'TTIUS VALENS. [VALENS.] he is said to have made a brazen image of the god
Q. VE'TTIUS VETTIA'INUS, a Marsian, was Vertumnus. (Propert. iv. 2. 61; comp. MiUller,
a contemporary of Cicero, by whom he is mentioned Etrusker, vol. ii. p. 252.)
among the orators of the Socii and Latini. (Cic. VETUS, the name of a family of the Antistia
Bsrut. 46.) gens. 1. ANTISTIUS VETUS, propraetor in Further
VETULI'NUS, was proscribed by the trium- Spain about B. C. 68, under whom Caesar served as
virs in B.C. 43, and collected a considerable force quaestor. (Vell. Pat. ii. 43; Plut. Caes. 5; Suet.
in the south of Italy, with which he for a long time Caes. 7.)
resisted the troops sent against him, but was at 2. C. ANTISTiUS VETUS, son of the preceding,
length killed when he was on the point of em- was taken as quaestor by Caesar out of gratitude
barking to cross over to Messana. (Appian, B. C. to his father, when he was propraetor in Further
iv. 25.) Spain in B. C. 61. In B. C. 57 Vetus was tribune
VETU'LIO, SE'NTIUS SATURNI'NUS. of the plebs and supported Cicero in opposition to
[SATURNINUS, SENTIUS, No. 2.] Clodius. In the civil war he espoused Caesar's
VETU'RIA, the mother of Coriolanus. [CORIO- party, and we find him in Syria in B. c. 45, fighting
LANUS.] against Q. Caecilius Bassus, who had formerly been
VET1 U'1RIA GENS, anciently called VETU'- on the Pompeian side, and who now attempted to
SIA, patrician and plebeian. The patrician branch seduce the troops in the East from their allegiance
of the gens was of great antiquity: according to to Caesar. He besieged Bassus in Apameia, but
tradition one of their number, Mamurius Veturius, was obliged to retire on the approach of the Parlived in the time of Numa, and made the sacred thians. In B. c. 34 Vetus carried on war against
ancilia. [See below.] From the fact of Mamu- the Salassi, and in B. C. 30 was consul suffectus.
rius Veturius being connected with the history of He accompanied Augustus to Spain in B. c. 25,
Numa, and also from his having two gentile names, and on the illness of the emperor continued the
we may conclude that the Veturii were of Sabine war against the Cantabri and Astures, whom he
origin, and belonged to the second tribe at Rome, reduced to submission. (Plut. Caes. 5; Cic. ad Q.
the Tities or Titienses. The Veturii are also Fs. ii. 1. ~ 3, ad Att. xiv. 9. ~ 3; Dion Cass. xlvii.
mentioned in the early times of the republic, and 27; Appian, Illyr. 17; Dion Cass. liii. 25; Vell.
one of them, P. Veturius Geminus Cicurinus, was Pat. ii. 90; Florus, iv. 12. ~ 21.) The annexed
consul in the eleventh year of the republic, B. C. coin seems to have been struck by this C. Antistius
499. The Veturii rarely occur in the later times Vetus, as triumvir of the mint. It contains on the
of the republic, and after the year B. C. 206, when obverse a female head with ANTISTIVS VETVS
L. Veturius Philo was consul, their name disap- IIVIR, and on the reverse various utensils of the
pears ftom the Fasti. They were divided into pontifices with IMP. CAESAR AV(G.) COS. XI.
families, bearing respectively the names of CALVINUS, CRASSUS CICURINUS, GEMINUS CICURI-
NUS (both of which are given under CICURINUS),
and PHILO. The coins of the Veturia gens have \
no cognomen upon them. The following specimen
represents on the obverse a head wearing a helmet
with TI. VE., and on the reverse a manl kneeling
down holding in his arms a pig, which two other oo
men are touching with their staves. The subject COIN OF C. ANTISTIUS VETUS.
represented on the obverse has been variously interpreted; but there canl be no doubt that it re- 3. C. ANTISTIUS VETUS, son of No. 2, was
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