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VETLIANSKOI, a fort of RufTia, on the Volga; 

 32 miles S.E. of Tclic-rnoiyar. 



VETLUGA, a river of Ruflia, which runs into the 

 Volga, near Kozmodcmiand;, in the government of Kazan. 

 •^Alfo, a town of Ruflia, in the government of Koftrom, 

 on a river of the fame name; 140 miles E. of Koftrom. 

 N. lat. 58"^. E. long. 45° 44'. 



VETO, in Roman Antiquity, was the folemn word ufed 

 by the tribunes of the people, when they inhibited any de- 

 cree of the fenate, or law propofed to the people, or any 

 aft of other magiftrates. See Intercessiok. 



VETOLA, in Ornithology, a name ufed by the Venetians, 

 and from them by many others, for a water-bird of the 

 fcolopax kind, called by Aldrovand the iotano, and by 

 Gefner the fedoa fecunda. In the Linna:an fyftem it is the 

 fcolopax I'lmofa. 



It ufually weighs about nine ounces ; its beak is (haped 

 like that of the woodcock, and is red all over, except at the 

 end, where it is blackilh ; its neck is grey ; its belly and 

 breaft white ; its head of a brownifh-grey, and its back 

 brown ; but its rump has a white ring on it ; its tail is com- 

 pofed of black and white feathers. Ray's Ornithology, 

 p. 216. 



VETRALLA, in Geography, a town of the Popedom, 

 in the Patrimonio ; 9 miles S. of Viterbo. 



VETSCHAU, a town of Lufatia ; 28 miles S.W. of 

 Guben. N. lat. 51° 47'. E. long. 14°. 



VETTICUTTY, a town of Hindooftan, in the Car- 

 natic ; 22 miles W.N.W. of Tritchinopoly. 



VETTINGEN, a town and abbey of Switzerland, in 

 the county of Baden ; 2 miles S. of Baden. 



VETTONA, in ylncient Geography, a town of Italy, in 

 Umbria. 



VETTONES, a people of Hifpania, in Lufitania, who 

 extended tliemfelves from the fouth towards the north, in 

 the eaftern part. 



VETTONI AN.-\, a town of Vindelicia. Itin. Anton. 



VETTONICA, in Botany, the ancient way of fpelling 

 the word ietonica, the name of a plant, called in Englifli 

 ielony. 



It is called vetlonica by Pliny, who fays it obtained that 

 name from a people of Italy fo called, among whole woods 

 it grew. 



If any thing certainly can be judged of the betonica of 

 the ancients, it is that it was our ftrratula. 



VETTORI, PlETRO, (Lat. Vicxoiuus,) m Biography, 

 a defcendant of a noble family at Florence, was born in 

 1499. Educated at his native city and at Pifa, he vifited 

 Spain, and returned to Italy with a colleftion of ancient 

 infcriptions. At Rome he complimented Clement VII. on 

 his accclTion to the pontificate ; ard fettling at Florence, 

 joined the party oppofed to the houfe of Medici, and fup- 

 ported it with his eloquence and arms. Upon the airafTuia- 

 tion of AlcfTandro di Medici in 1537, he withdrew to 

 Rome. In the following year, duke Cofmo appointed him 

 public profefTor of Greek and Latin eloquence at Florence, 

 and he fuftained this office with diitinguifhed reputation for 

 many years. He was much clleemed by feveral popes, and 

 MarccUus II. drew liim to Rome; but upon the death of 

 this pontiff, he rcfumed the chair at Florence, and held it 

 nearly to the clofe of his life. He died in 1585, regretted 

 and eulogized by the learned, on account of his virtuous 

 and amiable manners, as well as his cxtenfive erudition. 

 Vettori took great pains in improving the editions of the 

 ancient Greek and Latin v.-riters. Of the latter we may 

 mention Cicero, Terence, Varro, and Salluft ; and of tiie 

 former, Euripides, Porphyry, Dcm.clrius Phakrcus, JMalo, 



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Xenophon, Dion. Halicarn., Ariftotle, iEfchylns, and 

 Clemens Alcxandrinus. His commentaries upon the rhe- 

 toric, poetics, ethics, and politics of Ariftotle, and upon 

 the elocution of Demetrius Phalereus, are much valued. 

 He was .ilfo the author of many Italian and Latin letters, 

 and of fome poems, of an elegant Latin traft on the culture 

 of the olive, and of other pieces in MS. Tirabofchi. 

 Gen. Biog. 



VETULA, in Ancient Mythohgy, a goddefs who pre- 

 fided over pleafures. 



VETULONIA, or Vetulonienses, in yincient Geo* 

 graphy, a town of Italy, in Etruria, fituated towards the 

 weft, on the fea-coaft. It was one of the cities of the 

 Etrufcans, and defcribed by Silius Italicus as one of the 

 moft pleafant of their cities ; but it was deftroyed at the 

 commencement of Rome. 



VETULONIUM, a town of Italy, in the interior of 

 Etruria, accordmg to Ptolemy ; called Fetulonia by Silius 

 Italicus. 



VETUSSALINA, or Vetusalin.'e, a town of Va- 

 leria Ripenfis, fituated, according to Anton. Itin., on the 

 route from Taurunum in the Gauls, purfuing the fliore of 

 Pannonia, between Anamafcia and Campona. 



VEVAY, in Geography, the ancient Vibifcum, a town 

 of Switzerland, in the canton of Bern, and the principal 

 town of the bailliage, fituated near the lake of Geneva. 

 This town is clean and well-built, Hands on a fmall plain at 

 the foot of the mountains, on the margin of the water, and 

 is one of the few places in the canton of Bern which carry 

 on any trade. The chief manufafture is that of hats, and 

 the trade in cheefe is confiderable. The borders of this part 

 of the lake are much more contrafted, wild, and pifturefquc, 

 than thofe about Geneva ; the mountains of the Vallais 

 and Savoy projefting boldly into the water, and forming a 

 femicircular chain inclofing the lake, except where they are 

 divided by the Rhone, a few leagues from Vevay. This 

 town was taken from the houfe of Savoy in the year 1474, 

 but foon after reftorcd. In 1536 it was again taken, and 

 from that time has been attached to Bern. It has a college 

 for the inftruftion of youth, and two churches, one for the 

 French, and the o^her for the German language. Vevay 

 was diftinguiflied as the refidence of Edmund Ludlow, the 

 famous parliamentary general ; and here he found an afylum 

 from the attempts of his enemies, under the protedtion of 

 Bern. Here he was interred, and his monument is a plain 

 grave-ftone of black marble, on which is a Latin infcription. 

 Over the door of the houfe which he inhabited is ttill pre- 

 fervcd, from refpedt to his memory, the following uncouth 

 motto : 



" Omne folum forti patria eft, quia patris." 



Vevay is 10 milei E. of Laufanne. N. lut. 46° 30'. E. 

 long. 6° 48'. 



VEULLES, a town of France, in the department of 

 the Lower Seine ; 9 miles N.E. of Cany. 



VEURDRE, La, a town of France, in the department 

 of the AUier ; 13 miles N.W. of Moulins. 



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

 Cote d'Or ; 12 miles N.W. of Beaune. 



VEXALA, ill yliicient Geography, nncftuary of Britain, 

 which is probably the bay at the mouth of the river Breut, 

 in Somerfetlhire. 



VEXES. See Ne injujle vexes. 



VEXII,LARII, among the Romans, were veteran fol- 

 diers, the fame with thofe the oM Romans called triarii. 

 There were lix hundred of them in every legion. 



VEJilLLUM, a pair of colours btlonging to each cen- 

 tury 



