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VENICONTES, a people of Britain, S. of the Cale- 

 donii to the W. whofe town was Orrea. Ptol. 



VENIERO, DoMENico, in Biography, an Italian poet, 

 ■was born of a noble family at Venice in 1517 ; and after 

 receiving a good education, and being introduced to the 

 friendfliip of Bcmbo, and having been thus led into the way 

 of advancement to honourable and lucrative ftations, he loft 

 the ufe of his limbs at the age of thirty-two, and was con- 

 fined to his chamber for life. In this condition he fought 

 folace from poetry and the converfation of his learned 

 friends, who in great numbers reforted to his houfe. Thefe 

 meetings laid the foundation of the celebrated Venetian 

 academy, of which Veniero was the principal ornament. 

 Notwitliilanding the pain which he experienced, his poems 

 are diftinguifhcd by livelinefs of imagery and force of ex- 

 preflion. He died in 1582, at the age of fixty-five. His 

 poems were firll printed in the collections of Dolce and 

 Ruccelli ; and they were edited at Bergamo in 1751 and 

 '753' ^''^ thofe of his nephews, Maffeo and Luigi Ve- 

 niero, the former of whom was archbilhop of Corfu. Their 

 father Lorenzo was alfo a poet. Gen. Biog. 



VENIRE Facias, in Law, is a judicial writ, lying 

 where two parties plead, and come to ifTue ; diredled to the 

 ilieriff, to caufe twelve men, of the fame neighbourhood, 

 to meet to try the fame, and recognize the truth upon the 

 iffue taken. 



Afterwards a compulfive procefs is awarded againft the 

 jurors, called habeas corpora juratorum, or Jijlringas, that 

 they may appear upon the day appointed. See Jury. 



Venire Facias is alfo the name of a writ, which is the 

 proper procefs in an indiftment for any petty mifdemeanor, 

 or on a penal ilatute, and which is in the nature of a fummons, 

 to caufe the party to appear. And if by the return to fuch 

 'Venire it appears, that the party hath lands in the county by 

 which he may be diltrained, then a dijlrefs infinite (hall be 

 ilTued from time to time till he appears. But if the fherilF 

 returns that he hath no lands in his bailiwick, then, upon his 

 non-appearance, a writ of capias {hall iffue ; and if he cannot 

 be taken upon tlie firll capias, a fecond and a third (hall 

 ilTue, called an alias, and 3. pluries capias. 



Venire Facias tot Malronas. See Ventre Infpiciendo. 



VENISON, Venaison; the fleih of beafts of game, or 

 of animals to be caught in the way of game, i.'j. by hunt- 

 ing. Sec, as deer, hare, &c. 



The word is French, -uenaifon ; formed of the Latin -ve- 

 natio, hunting. 



The old huntfmen have determined, that every beaft of 

 the foreft, that is food for man, is venifon. In many parts 

 of .the world the bears are as regularly hunted as the hare 

 and buck, &c. are with us, and there are called venifon ; 

 but with us, at prefent, the word venifon feems hmited to 

 the flefh of the hart, the hind, the buck, the doe, and the 

 other creatures of that kind. 



Some have extended the fignification of the woijd to the 

 beafts of the foreft which were chafed as game, and afforded 

 the diverfion of hunting, whether their flcfh were eaten or 

 not : thus, in fome places, the wolf and the fox are reckoned 

 among the venifon beafts. 



VENIUS, or Van-Veen, Otiio, in Biography, was of 

 a diftinguifhed family in Holland, and was born at Leyden 

 in 1556. He received an excellent education from his 

 parents, and though his progrefs in hterature was unufual, 

 yet he was permitted to purfue his defire of becoming a 

 painter. He received lelTons in defign from Ifaac Nicholas, 

 but is more mdebted to John Van Winghen. The war in 

 the Low Countries drove him to Liege at the age of fifteen, 

 and there he continued to profecute hia ftudies ip literature 



and the arts. He acquired the favour of cardinal Grofbeck, 

 at that time prince bifhop of Liege, who, defirous of his 

 advancement, advifed him to vifit Rome, and furnifhed him 

 with letters of recommendation to cardinal Marduccio, then 

 in that city. On his arrival there he was kindly received 

 and entertained by his eminence, and lie became a difciplc 

 of Fred. Zuccharo, by whofe inftruftions, and his own in- 

 duftry in ftudying the beautiful works of antiquity with 

 which he was fuiTounded, he acquired a very great degree 

 of correftnefs in dellgn, and a more elevated tafte than his 

 countrymen ufually exhibited in their works. 



Havmg devoted feven years to his ftudies in Italy, he 

 vifited Germany, where he ftaid fome time, and received a 

 flattering invitation to remain in the court of the emperor ; 

 but his defire to revifit his native country prevailed, and he 

 declined this honourable propofal. As he pafTed through 

 Munich and Cologne, he was employed by the duke of Ba- 

 varia and the eleAor ; and on his arrival at Bruffels, the 

 governor, Alexander Farnefe, appointed him his principal 

 engineer and painter, and fat to him for his portrait. 



After the death of his patron he eftablilhed himfelf at 

 Antwerp, where he was much engaged in painting hiftori- 

 cal works for the churches, &c. and gained a great reputa- 

 tion ; which has not been diminifhed by his having had for 

 his difciple fo renowned an artift as Rubens. 



When the archduke Albert was appointed governor of 

 the Netherlands, Otho Venius made the defigns for the 

 triumphal arches erefted on his entree, with which the arch- 

 duke was fo much gratified, that he invited him to Bruffels, 

 and appointed him his principal painter, and mafter of the 

 mint, which fituations he occupied till his death in 1 634, at 

 the age of 78. 



Otho Venius did not confine himfelf to painting, he wrote 

 and publifhed fevcral works adorned with prints, chiefly en- 

 graved ky his brother, Gilbert Venius, from his defigns. 

 Among them are, a tranflation of part of Tacitus ; Horace's 

 Emblems, with notes and obfervations ; the Life of Thomas 

 Aquinas ; and the Emblems of Love, divine and profane. 



VENIZY, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Yonne ; 3 miles N. of St. Florentin. 



VENLO, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Lower JVIeufe, late the duchy of Guelderland, fituated on 

 the E. fide of the Meufe, takes its name from the two 

 Flemifh words Veenen and Loo, which fignify a low meadow. 

 Before the year 1343, it was only a fmall town, when Re- 

 naud II. duke of Gueldres, fortified it, and gave it the title 

 and privileges of a city. It has only one parifh-church, 

 which is dedicated to St. John. After feveral changes of 

 poffeffors, it was ceded, in 17 1 5, to the States-General by 

 the barrier treaty. In this town was made the firft trial of 

 bombs, about 1588 ; and they were firft ufed by Alexander 

 Farnefe, duke of Parma, at the fiege of Watchtendonck, 

 not long after. In 1794, it was taken by the French; 12 

 miles N.N.E. of Ruremond. N. lat. 51° 27'. E. long. 

 6^2'. 



VENNO, a town of the republic of Lucca ; 5 miles 

 S.S.W. of Lucca. 



VENOE, a fmall Danifh ifland, in the gulf of Lymfiord. 

 N. lat. 56° 34'. E. long. 8° 38'. 



VENOM, Venenum. See Poison. 



The terms venom ^nA pr/ifon only differ from each other 

 in this, that the latter is more frequently ufed where the 

 noxious matter is taken inwardly, as in foods, drinks, &c. ; 

 and the former, where it is applied ojlwardly, as in ftings 

 and bites of ferpents, fcorpions, vipers, fpiders, &c. 



The pike is faid to have a venomous tooth. All venomous 

 beafts, in the general, have that quality in a greater degree, 



when 



