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1236 VEIANIUS. VELEDA.
which followed the 30th of the fourth, since this after dedicating his arms to the temple of Her.
is the point at which the precepts regarding naval 1 cules at Fundi in Latium. (Hor. Ep. i 1. 5, with
affairs commence. the Schol.)
We can speak with little respect of this com- 3. VEIANIUS NIGER, a tribune of the soldiers
pilation. The usages of periods the most remote under Nero, plt Subrius Flavus to death. (Tac.
from each other, of the early ages of the common- Ann. xv. 67.)
wealth, of the era of Marius and Caesar, of the first VEIANTA'NUS POMPO'NIUS. [POMemperors and of the successors of Constantine, are PONIUS, p. 495, a.]
mixed together into one confused mass, and not un- VEIENTO, was left in the command of Syria
frequently, we have reason to suspect, are blended by Bibulus, when he quitted the province in B. c.
with arrangements which never existed except in 50. (Cic. ad Att. vii. 3. ~ 5.) Manutius supposes
the fancy of the author. From the circumstance that Veiento was the quaestor of Bibulus, but we
that we are here presented with something like a know that Sallust held this office (Cic. ad Farn.
regular and systematic exposition of the Roman ii. 17); and we may therefore conclude that
art of war, the statements have been frequently Veiento was the legatus of Bibulus. The gentile
adopted without modification in manuals of an- name of Veiento is not mentioned, but it is not imtiquities; and notwithstanding the warning of probable that it was Fabricius, and that he was an
Salmasius, have been too often quoted with respect ancestor of the following person.
by scholars who ought to have been fully aware of VEIENTO, FABRI'CI US, was accused in the
their worthlessness. That it is possible to glean reign of Nero, A. D. 62, because he had published
some curious and even important information from many libels against the fathers and the priests in
these pages, may be admitted, but we must act books to which he had given the name of Codicilli;
with the utmost caution, and scrutinise with jealous and his accuser Fabius Geminus added that he had
eye every addition thus made to our store of know- sold the honours which the emperor was accustomed
ledge. We know nothing of the personal history to grant. Nero thereupon banished him from Italy
of Vegetius, but it has been inferred from the tone and ordered his books to be burnt. He is probably
in which he speaks of the military oath (ii. 5) that the same as the A. Fabricius, whom Dion Cassius
he was a Christian. mentions as praetor in the reign of Nero. (Tac.
The three earliest editions of Vegetius are with- Ann. xiv. 50; Dion Cass. lxi. 6.) Veiento afterout date and have no name of place or printer, but wards returned to Rome, and became in the reign
are known, from the researches of bibliographers, of Domitian one of the most infamous informers
to have been printed respectively at Utrecht, Paris, and flatterers of that tyrant. He also enjoyed the
and Cologne between theyears 1473-1478. The intimate friendship of Nerva. Aurelius Victor says
first with a date is that which appeared at Rome, that Veiento held the consulship under Domitian;
4to. 1487, and was reprinted in 1494. The best but his name does not occur in the Fasti, nor is his
edition is that of Schwebelius (4to. Norimberg, consulship mentioned by anly other ancient writer.
1767), containing a selection from the commentaries (Juv. iii. 185, iv. 113, vi. 113, Plin. Alp. iv. 22
of Stewechius and Scriverius, together with a Aurel. Vict. Epit. 12; Plin. Ep. ix. 13.)
French translation. It was reprinted (omitting VEIOVIS, is explained by Festus (p. 379, ed.
the translation) with additional remarks by Ouden- MUller) to mean "little Jupiter" (comp. Ov. Fast.
dorp and Bessel, 8vo. Argent. 1806. This treatise iii. 445); while others interpret it " the destructive
will be found also in all the collections of the Latin Jupiter," and identify him with Pluto. (Gell. v.
" Veteres de Re militari Scriptores," of which the 12; Macrob. Sat. iii. 9.) But Veiovis and Vediius
best edition is that printed at Wesel (Vesalia (Martian. Capell. ii. p. 40), which are only difClivorum), 8vo. 1670. ferent forms of the. same name, seem to designate
There is a version of Vegetius in German, an Etruscan divinity of a destructive nature, whose
printed as early as 1474, and in French, printed fearful lightnings produced deafness in those who
in 1488, but in neither is the name of the trans- were to be struck by them, even before they were
lator given. In 1489 Caxton published " The actually hurled. (Amm. Marc. xvii. 10.) His
fayt of armes and chyvalry from Vegetius," to temple at Rome stood between the Capitol and the
which is appended the following curious notice: Tarpeian rock; he was represented as a youthful
" Thus endeth this boke, which Xyne of Pyse" god armed with arrows, and his festival fell before the
(Christina of Pisa) " made and drewe out of the nones of March. (Gell. 1. c.; Vitruv. iv. 8.) [L. S.]
boke named Vegecius de Re Militari, which boke, Q. VELA'NIUS, a tribune of the soldiers,
beyng in frensche, was delyvered to me Willm whom Caesar sent in B. c. 56 among the Veneti for
Caxton by the most crysten kynge, henry vii, the the purpose of obtaining corn. (Caes. B. G. iii. 7.)
xxxiij day of Janyuere, the iiij yere of his regne, VELEDA, a prophetic virgin, by birth belonged
and desired and wylled me to translate this said to the Bructeri, and was regarded as a divine
boke, and reduce it into our english and natural being by most of the nations in central Germany
tonge, and to put it in emprynte. Whiche transla- in the reign of Vespasian. She inhabited a lofty
cyon was finysshed the viij day of Juyll the said tower in the neighbourhood of the river Luppia
yere and emprynted the xiiij day of Juyll next fol- (Lippe); but none save her own immediate relalowyng, and fill fynyshed." [W. R.] tions were allowed to enter her presence, in order
VEHI'LIUS, praetor B. c. 44, refused to re- to preserve the veneration in which she was held.
ceive a province from Antony, and said that he She encouraged Civilis in his revolt against the
would obey the senate alone. (Cic. Phil. iii. 10.) Romans, and predicted the success which he at
VEIA'NIUS. 1. Two brothers of this name first obtained, but she was afterwards taken pribelonging to the Faliscus ager are mentioned by soner and carried to Rome. (Tac. Hist. iv. 61, 65,
Varro (R. R. iii. 16. ~ 10). v. 22, 24, Germ. 8; Stat. Silv. i. 4. 90, captiv(eque
2. A celebrated gladiator in the time of Horace, preces Velgdae; Dion Cass. lxvii. 5, who makes the
who had retired to a small estate in the country, penultimate long, Beh31a.)