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1723, "Catone in Utica ;" in 1729, " Semiramide Rico- 

 nofciuta;" and in 1730, " Aleffandro nell' Indie," and " Ar- 

 taferfe," all for the theatres in Rome. The celebrated air 

 at the end of the firft aft of Artaferfe, " Vo folcando un 

 — — crudele," originally compofed for Careftini, is well 



tians did not touch the lake of Conftance, except in a part 

 of their borders, that is, between the Rhine and Bregentz ; 

 but this town, which Ptolemy afligns to the Rhaetians, really 

 belonged to the Vindelicians. The Helvetians and Vindeli- 

 cians occupied a great part of the banks of the lake. Upon 



known, and is perhaps the only produftion of Vinci by the whole we may conclude, from the obfervations of Strabo, 

 which his merits have been favourably eftimated in England. ■"'■'"• 

 In the printed book of the words, Vinci is called " Pro-vice 

 maeftro della Real Capella di Napoli." 



We have been able to find no more of his works after this 

 period ; fo that he mufl either have begun late, or been cut 

 off early in life, as his great and durable renown feems to 

 have been acquired in the fhort fpace of fix years of his 

 exiftence. 



Vinci began that free and truly dramatic ftyle of compo- 

 fition, which Hafle and Pergolefi afterwards, perhaps, im- 

 proved ; but it is a ftyle which no good compofer, except 

 Gluck, has abandoned. It has been, indeed, embellifiied 

 and rendered more elegant by the difciples of Durante : 

 Piccini, Sacchini, Traetta, and Anfofli ; but they have all 

 been guided by the outline of Vinci. 



This juftly admired compofer died at Rome in 1731, dur- 

 ing the firft run of his Artaferfe. Metaftafio, in a letter 

 to the Romanina, makes a melancholy refleftion on the fub- 

 jeft : " Poor Vinci ! Now that merit will be known, which 

 during his life vfas blafted by his enemies. 



" What a miferable being is man ' H-e thinks fame the 

 only good that can render him happy ; but alas ! he muft 

 die ere he is allowed to enjoy it ; and if he does not die, 

 envy will make him wretched for attempting to acquire it." 



One of our own poets has made a fimilar refleftion on 

 the vanity of human wiflies for any other than pofthumous 

 fame. 



" For fuch the frailty is of human kind. 



Men toil for fame, which no man lives to find ; 

 Long rip'ning under ground the china lies : 

 Fame bears no fruit, till the vain planter dies." 



Earl of Mulgrave. 



VINCIA, Vexce, in Ancient Geography, a town of 

 Gallia Narbonnenfis, N. of Antipolis, and the capital of 

 the Narufci. Tlie town feems to have been confecrated to 

 the god Mars, and Cybele was worftiipped there. 



VINCULO Matrimonii, Divorce a. See Divorce. 

 VINCULUM, in Algebra, a charafter in form of a line, 

 or ftroke drawn over a faftor, divifor, dividend, when com- 

 pounded of feveral letters, or quantities ; to conneft them, 

 and (hew that they arc to be multiplied, or divided, &c. 

 together, by the other term. 



Thus, </ X a + b — c, fhews that d is to be multiplied 

 into a -'r b — c. 



VINCUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of Lower Ger- 

 many. Anton. Itin. 



VINDALIUM, ViD~ENE, a village of Galha Narbon- 

 nenfis, upon the left of the Rhone, N.W. of Cyprefleta. 

 VINDANA, a port of Gallia Lyonnenfis. Ptol. 

 VINDELICIA, acou.ntryof Europe, N. of the Alps 

 and S. of the Danube, near Rh^tia. It has been conjec- 

 tured that this name is for.med of two words, which are the 

 names of two rivers that water the country ; one called Viiido 

 (the Wertach, which pafTes to Auglburg), and the other 

 J Jehus ( the Lech ) . Strabo and Ptolemy differ in their affign- 

 ment of the bounds of this country. According to Strabo, 

 the Vindelicians lived near the Salaffes, and inhabited apart of 

 the mountains which regarded the eatt and turned towards 

 the S. He adds that they were the limitrophcs of the Hel- 

 vetians and Boians. ^According to this author, the Rhse- 



PHny, Tacitus, and Sextus Rufus, who have all taken ?. 

 part in fettling the boundaries of Vindehcia, that in its an- 

 cient ftate it had the Danube to the N., and that the river 

 .^nus feparated it from Norica on the E. fide, and that on 

 the W. it extended from the lake of Conftance to the Da- 

 nube. Its boundaries on the S. are lets fatisfaftorily afcer- 

 tained. Strabo fays that the Vindelicians poflefTed moun- 

 tainous plains at the extremity of the Alps ; and he repre- 

 fents this country as contained between the Licus and the 

 jEnus. M. D'Anville, in his Ancient Geography, fays 

 that the country of the Vindelici extended from the town 

 of Brigar.tic, (Bregentz), on the lake of Conftance, to the 

 Danube ; and that the lowe- part of the courfe of the .£nus 

 or of the Inn feparated it from Morbihan. A powerful 

 colony was eftabliftied in the angle formed by the two rivers 

 Vindo and Licus, whence the nation feems to have derived 

 the appellation of Vindelici ; and Augufta, given to this 

 colony, preferves its name in that of Augftjourg, between 

 the two rivers Lech and Wertach, the firft of which aftually 

 feparates Suabia from Bavaria. 



Vindelicia, when it was fubjugated by the Romans, was 

 joined to Rhaetia, and the whole country, contained between 

 the lake of Conftance, the Danube, the Inn, and the coun- 

 try of the Carni, the Infubres and Venetians, was always 

 called Rhsetia, or Provincia Rhjetia. Neverthelefs, the 

 Rhxtians and Vindelicians formed two feparate people, al- 

 though they inhabited the fame province. Accordingly 

 Horace calls the inhabitants of Vindehcia, Rhaiti Vindeli, to 

 diftinguifh them from the inhabitants of Rhaetia properly fo 

 called. 



VINDELIS, or Visdilis, an ifland placed by the 

 Itinerary of Antonine between the Gauls and Great Bri- 

 tain ; but this is done in fo vague and indefinite a manner, 

 that it is not poffible to fay what ifland is meant. Some 

 authors think that it is the ifie of Portland. 



VINDEMIATING, formed of -vindemia, mintage, the 

 gathering of grapes, or other ripe fruits ; as apples, pears, 

 cherries, &c. 



VINDEMIATRIX, or Vindemi.itor, a fixed ftar of 

 the third magnitude, in the northern wing of the conftella- 

 tion Virgo. 



VINDENUTA, ViNDUNlTA, Findimita, or Vindoniten/ts 

 infula, in Ancient Geography, an idand of France, in de- 

 pendence on the town of Nantes. It was to this ifland 

 Friard is fuppofed to have retired in 560, to pafs the life of 

 an indolent and ufelefs hermit ; and he thus acquired the 

 name of St. Friard. 



VINDERIUS, a river of Hibernia, having, according 

 to Ptolemy, its mouth on the eaftern coaft, between the 

 promontory Ifamnium and the mouth of the river Logia. 

 Camden thought that it is the prefent bay of Knock- 

 fergus. 



VINDIA, or ViNDA, a town of Afia, in Galatia, upon 

 the route from Peftinunte to Ancyra, between Germa and 

 Papira. Anton. Itin. 



VINDICATION, Claiming, in the Civil Law, an 

 aftion arifing from the property a perfon has in any thing : 

 or a permiflion to take or feize a thing, as one's own, out 

 of the hands of a perfon, whom the law has doomed not to 

 be the true proprietor. 



VINDICATORY Part of a Law. See Law. 



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