A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence by Cornelius Tacitus
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TMOLUS, a mountain of Lydia, commended for its vines, its saffron, its
fragrant shrubs, and the fountain-head of the Pactolus. It appears
from Tacitus, that there was a town of the same name, that stood near
the mountain.
TOLBIACUM, a town of Gallia Belgica; now _Zulpich_, or _Zulch_, a
small town in the duchy of Juliers.
TRALLES, formerly a rich and populous city of Lydia, not far from the
river Meander. The ruins are still visible.
TRAPEZUS, now _Trapezond_ or _Trebizond_, a city with a port in the
Lesser Asia, on the Euxine.
TREVIRI, the people of _Treves_; an ancient city of the Lower Germany,
on the Moselle. It was made a Roman colony by Augustus, and became the
most famous city of Belgic Gaul. It is now the capital of an
electorate of the same name.
TRIBOCI, a people of Belgica, originally Germans. They inhabited
_Alsace_, and the diocese of _Strasbourg_.
TRIMETUS, an island in the Adriatic; one of those which the ancients
called _Insulae Diomedeae_; it still retains the name of _Tremiti_. It
lies near the coast of the _Capitanate_, a province of the kingdom of
Naples, on the Gulf of Venice.
TRINOBANTES, a people of Britain, who inhabited _Middlesex_ and
_Essex_.
TUBANTES, an ancient people of Germany, about _Westphalia_.
TUNGRI, a people of Belgia. Their city, according to Caesar, _Atuaca_;
now _Tongeren_, in the bishopric of Liege.
TURONII, a people of ancient Gaul, inhabiting the east side of the
_Ligeris_ (now the _Loire_). Hence the modern name of _Tours_.
TUSCULUM, a town of Latium, to the north of _Alba_, about twelve miles
from Rome. It gave the name of _Tusculanum_ to Cicero's villa, where
that great orator wrote his Tusculan Questions.
TYRUS, an ancient city of Phoenicia, situate on an island so near the
continent, that Alexander the Great formed it into a peninsula, by the
mole or causey which he threw up during the siege. See Curtius, lib.
iv. s. 7.
U.
UBIAN ALTAR, an altar erected by the Ubii, on their removal to the
western side of the Rhine, in honour of Augustus; but whether this was
at a different place, or the town of the Ubii, is not known.
UBII, a people originally of Germany, but transplanted by Augustus to
the west side of the Rhine, under the conduct of _Agrippa_. Their
capital was then for a long time called _Oppidum Ubiorum_, and, at
last, changed by the empress Agrippina to _Colonia Agrippinensis_; now
_Cologne_, the capital of the electorate of that name.
UMBRIA, a division of Italy, to the south-east of Etruria, between the
Adriatic and the Nar.
UNSINGIS, a river of Germany, running into the sea, near _Groningen_;
now the _Hunsing_.
URBINUM, now _Urbino_, a city for ever famous for having given birth
to Raphael, the celebrated painter.
USIPII, or USIPETES, a people of Germany, who, after their expulsion
by the Catti, settled near _Paderborn_. See Manners of the Germans, s.
32. and note a.
USPE, a town in the territory of the _Siraci_; now destroyed.
V.
VADA, a town on the left-hand side of the Nile, in the island of
Batavia.
VAHALIS, a branch of the Rhine; now the Waal. See Manners of the
Germans, s. 29. and note a.
VANGIONES, originally inhabitants of Germany, but afterwards settled
in Gaul; now the diocese of _Worms_.
VASCONES, a people who inhabited near the Pyrenees, occupying lands
both in Spain and Gaul.
VELABRUM, a place at Rome, between Mount Aventine and Mount Palatine,
generally under water, from the overflowing of the Tiber. Propertius
describes it elegantly, lib. iv. eleg. x.
Qua Velabra suo stagnabant flumine, quaque
Nauta per urbanas velificabat aquas.
VELINUS, a lake in the country of the Sabines.
VENETI, a people of Gallia Celtica, who inhabited what is now called
_Vannes_, in the south of Britanny, and also a considerable tract on
the other side of the Alps, extending from the Po along the Adriatic,
to the mouth of the _Ister_.
VERCELLAE, now _Vercelli_ in Piedmont.
VERONA, now _Verona_, in the territory of Venice, on the _Adige_.
VESONTIUM, the capital of the Sequani; now _Besancon_, the chief city
of Burgundy.
VETERA, i.e. Vetera Castra. The Old Camp, which was a fortified
station for the legions; now _Santen_, in the duchy of Cleves, not far
from the Rhine.
VIA SALARIA, a road leading from the salt-works at Ostia to the
country of the Sabines.
VIADRUS, now the _Oder_, running through _Silesia_, _Brandenburg_,
_Pomerania_, and discharging itself into the Baltic.
VICETIA, now _Vicenza_, a town in the territory of Venice.
VIENNAE, a city of Narbonese Gaul; now _Vienne_, in _Dauphine_.
VINDELICI, a people inhabiting the country of _Vindelicia_, near the
Danube, with the Raehti to the south; now part of _Bavaria_ and
_Suabia_.
VINDONISSA, now _Windisch_, in the canton of Bern, in Swisserland.
VISURGIS, a river of Germany, made famous by the slaughter of Varus
and his legions; now the _Weser_, running north between Westphalia and
Lower Saxony, into the German Sea.
VOCETIUS MONS, a mountain of the Helvetii, thought to be the roughest
part of Mount _Jura_, to which the Helvetii fled when defeated by
Caecina. See Hist. i. s. 67.
VOLSCI, a powerful people of ancient Latium, extending from _Antium_,
their capital, to the _Upper Liris_, and the confines of _Campania_.
VULSINII, or VOLSINII, a city of Etruria, the native place of Sejanus;
now _Bolseno_, or _Bolsenna_.
Z.
ZEUGMA, a town on the _Euphrates_, famous for a bridge over the river.
See Pliny, lib, v. s. 24.
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