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riftim was offered to her, but that her facrificea were the 

 fruits of the earth. She was called by various names ; by 

 the Egyptians, Nepthe ; by the Sabines, Vacuna ; by the 

 Greeks, Apteros, without wings ; by others, Vitula. 

 Among her epithets were Eteralcea, which Homer ufes to 

 denote that (he inclined to both fides ; that of Praepes and 

 Volacris, to denote lier fwiftnefs ; and that of Cceligena by 

 Varro, becaufe Viftory comes from heaven. A Viftory at 

 Rome, whofe wings were burnt by lightning, gave rife to 

 the following epigram : " Rome, great queen of the world, 

 thy glory (hall never fade, fince Viftory, now ftripped of 

 her wings, can never fly away." 



Victory, in Geography, a town of America, in the 

 diftrift of Vermont, and county of ElTex, containing fix 

 inhabitants ; 75 miles N. of Norwich. 



Victory, Cape, the extreme N.W. point of the Straits 

 of Magellan, at the opening to the South Pacific ocean. 

 S. lat. 52° 15'. W. long. 76° 40'. 



VICTUALLER, one that fells Tiftuals ; and we now 

 call all common alehoufe-keepers viftuallers. See Ale- 

 house. 



Viftuallers (hall fell their viftuals at reafonable prices, or 

 forfeit double value ; and viftuallers, fi(hmongers, poul- 

 terers, &c. coming with their viftuals to London, (hall be 

 under the regulation of the lord-mayor and aldermen ; 

 and fell their viftuals at prices appointed by juftices, &c. 

 (23 & 31 Edw. in. c. 6. 7Rich.IL 13 Rich. IL) If 

 any viftuallers, butchers, brewers, poulterers, cooks, &c. 

 confpire and agree together not to fell their viftuals, but 

 at certain prices, they (hall forfeit for the (irft offence 

 10/., for the fecond 20/., and for the third offence 40/. 

 (2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 15.) See Forestalling. 



Victualler, Agenl. See Agent. 



VICTUALLING-Office, an office formerly kept on 

 Tower-Hill, now in Somerfet-Houfe and Deptford, for fur- 

 ni(hing his majefty's navy with viftuals. 



It is managed by feven commiffioners, who have their in- 

 ferior officers, as fecretaries, clerk, &c.; befides agents in 

 divers parts of Great Britain, Ireland, &c. 



VICTUS Ratio, among Phyftcians, a particular man- 

 ner of living, for the prefervation of health, and prevention 

 of difeafes. 



VICUNNA, in Zoology, a name given to iht pacos. 



VICUS Aquarius, in ylnclent Geography, a very conC- 

 derable town of Hifpania, in Lufitania, towards the north, 

 in the country of the Vettones. 



Vicus Augujl'i, Kair-Wan, a town of Africa, on a large 

 plain, 8. of Adrumetum, marked in the Itin. of Antonine 

 between Aquiliante and Cloacaria — Alfo, a town of Africa 

 Propria, upon the route from Carthage to Sufetula, be- 

 tween Adrumetum and Aquie Regise. Anton. Itin. 



Vicus Badius, a place of Italy, on the route from Rome 

 to Adria, between Palacrinum and Centefimum. Anton. 

 Itin. 



Vicus Cuminarius, a place of Hifpania Citerior, belong- 

 ing to the Carpentaiii, at a fmall diilance upon the left of 

 the Tagus. It is marked in the Itin. Anton, on the route 

 from Emerita to Csfar-Augufta, between Alces and Ti- 

 tulciae. 



Vicus Judtorum, a place of Egypt, on the other fide of 

 the Nile, between Thou and Scenae Veteranorum, accord- 

 ing to the Itin. of Antonine. 



Vicus Novtu, VUo, a fmall place of Italy, in Campania, 

 at fome diftance to the S.E. from Calatia and Capua. — Alfo, 

 a place of Italy, in Umbria, on the route from Rome 

 to Adria, between Eretura and Reate. Anton. Itin, 



VID, in Geography, a river of Bulgaria, which rutiB into 

 the Danube, 10 miles W. of Nicopoli. 



VIDA, Marco-Girolamo, in Biography, a modem 

 Latin poet of reputation, was born at Cremona of parents 

 nobly defcended, but in humble condition. The date of 

 his nativity is differently affigned ; fome fixing it in the year 

 1470, and others in 1490. His education v/as liberal at 

 Padua and Bologna, in the latter of which cities two of his 

 poems were publi(hed in 1 504, under the name of Marc- 

 Antonio, which he changed for Marco-Girolamo, when he 

 took orders as a canon regular of Lateran. For affifl- 

 ance in the ftudy of theology and philofophy, to which in 

 early life he was devoted, he went to Rome in the latter years 

 of Julius II. His poems were much applauded, and gave 

 him rank among the principal geniufes of the age. He was 

 indebted to the early patronage of Ghiberti, bifhop of 

 Verona, for an introduftion to Leo X., who bellowed upon 

 him both wealth and honours. Befides other benefices, he 

 prefented him to the priory of St. Silveftro, in Frafcati, 

 where he enjoyed a favourable opportunity for purfuing his 

 (Indies, and efpeciallv the completion of his " Chriftiad," 

 in wliich Leo had engaged him. Of his more confiderable 

 poems, his work entitled " De Arte Poetica" is fuppofed 

 to have been firft written ; and the firft known edition of it 

 is dated in 1527. This was foon followed by his " Bombyx," 

 or art of rearing filk-worms, and his " Scacchix Ludus," 

 or poem on the game of chefs. Clement VII. became his 

 fecond patron, and promoted him firft to the office of 

 apoftohcal prothonotary, and in 1532 to the bi(hopric of 

 Alba. After the death of this pope, he retired to his dio- 

 cefe, and eftabh(hed the charafter of a zealous and affec- 

 tionate paftor; and when, in 1542, Alba was invefted by the 

 French, he contributed by his exhortations and example fo 

 to animate the citizens, as to preferve it from the enemy. 

 His two books " De Republica" contain dialogues, which 

 are the fubftance of a converfation that paffed between him, 

 and fome cardinals and learned men, at the council of Trent. 

 Thefe dialogues are excellent, with refpeft to the correftnefs 

 and elegance of their ftyle, and evince that the author was 

 no lefs extenfively converfant with politics and philofophy 

 than with polite literature. In 1 55 1 Vida retired to Cre- 

 mona, on account of the wars which defolated his diocefe : 

 however, he was not unmindful of his paftoral charge, but 

 effeftually interceded with Don Ferdinand Gonzaga, go- 

 vernor of Milan, and thus prevented his marching, as he 

 threatened to do, to Alba, and putting all the inhabitants 

 to the fword. In 1563 he was Hill at Cremona, but foon 

 after removed to Alba, and died there in 1566. As a Latin 

 poet, Vida acquired a very high reputation ; to which he 

 wasjuftly entitled, partly on account of the fubjefts which 

 he felefted, and partly for the fingular claffic purity and dig- 

 nity of his llyle, formed on the model of the moft admired 

 produftions of antiquity. Virgil was the objeft of his ad- 

 miration and imitation, whom he refpefted, and after whom 

 he copied, as Cicero was the model of the profe Latin writers 

 of that age. " Vida's works," fays a judicious biographer, 

 " do not fo much give the imprelFiou of a writer of original 

 and fervid genius, as of one poffeffing tafte, elegance, and 

 ingenuity." Befides 'the poems already mentioned, Vida was 

 the author of Eclogues, of Sacred Hymns, and of other 

 fmall pieces, which are marked with his purity of diftion and 

 claffical refinement. The fame of this poet in England has 

 been greatly promoted by the well-known lines in Pope's 

 Effay on Criticifm, which place him on a parallel with Ra- 

 phael, and entitle Cremona to boaft of him, as much as 

 Mantua of Virgil ; but this was the hyperbolical eulogy of 

 a juvenile writer, which his ma.turer judgment WQuld fcarcely 



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