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a bafc violin, and a ihorough-bafe oti the orgai) ; con v'tol'mi 

 a Jlromenti, i. e. with vioUns or inllruments ; parti con,parti 

 fen%a v'wlin't, i. e. part with, part without violins, &c. 



VOCETIUS MoNs, m Jlnciiii! Geography, a mountain 

 mentioned by Tacitu?, in Helvetia, applicable to a branch 

 of mount Jura, which approaches the Rhine above Augufta 

 Rauracorum. 



VOCHY, in Botany, Aubl. Giiian. v. i. i8. t. 6. 

 Poiret in Lam. Dift. v. 8. 68i, the Caribbean name of a 

 fine tree in Guiana. ( See Cucullaria.) It is fcarcely cre- 

 dible that JufTieu and Lamarck (hould have attempted to 

 render the above name admiffible, or have thought they 

 improved it, by changing it to Vochifia ; Juff. Gen. 424. 

 Lamarck Illuftr. t. 11. The natural order of this genus 

 remains doubtful. 



VOCIFE RATIO, in our old Law-Booh, the fame 

 with hue and cry. 



" — Qui furem plegi turn dimiferit, qui ei obviaverit, et 

 gratis fine vociferatione dimiferit, &c." Leg. Hen. I. 



VOCLADE, in Ancient Geography, a place of Gallia 

 Aquitanica, belonging to the Pittavii, celebrated by the 

 defeat of Alaric, flain by Clovis. 



VOCOKIURA, in Geography, a town of Japan, in the 

 iflandof Ximo ; 33 miles N. of Nangafaki. 



VOCONIAN Law, in Roman Antiquity, a teftamentary 

 law prepared by Q. Voconius, tribune of the people, which 

 prohibited every citizen from making any woman univerfal 

 legatee, not excepting an only daugliter, and enjoined a 

 daughter's fortune, after her father's death, to be propor- 

 tioned to his eftate, according to the eftimation of prudent 

 men ; and this proportion was ufually one-fourth of her 

 father's eftate ; and, moreover, that all the legacies of the 

 teftator fhould not exceed one half of his eftate. This was 

 intended as a fupplement to the Furian law ; the time of its 

 palling is fixed by Cicero, de Scneft. to the year of Rome 

 584, when Q. Marcius Philippus, and Cn. Servilius Caepio, 

 were confuls. It was revoked by Auguftus in favour of 

 Livia, to whom he was refolved to dcvife by will a great 

 part of his eltate. However, though, by the abrogation of 

 this law, married women were not reftrained from receiving 

 any legacies above a certain fum, yet Auguilus beftowed 

 on fuch women as had vowed perpetual virginity the fame 

 rewards and privileges as upon mothers. 



VOCONTIl, ill Jncienl Geography, a people of Gallia 

 Narbonncnfis, N. of the Memini. According to Strabo, 

 they extended thcmfelvcs to the frontier of the AUobrogcs, 

 in valleys that were deep and difficult of accefs. Mela men- 

 tions them, and Valio their capital. The Vocontii were go- 

 verned bv their own peculiar laws. They appear to have 

 occupied not only tlie diocefes of Vaifon and of Die, but a 

 part of the diocefe of Gap and of that of Silleron. 



VODABLE, in Geography, a town of France, in the 

 department of the Puy de Dome ; 4 miles S.W. of Ifloire. 

 VODANA, a town of Arabia, in the province of 

 Oman, on the Moiefur ; 40 miles S.W. of Oman. 



VODERKAMP, a town of the duchy of Holftein ; 

 31 miles E. of Lutkenborg. 



VODLA, a river of RuHia, whicli runs from lake 

 Vodlo, and enters lake Onezlkoc, near Fudoga. 



VODLITZA, a river of Ruffia, which runs into lake 

 Ladoga ; 16 miles N.W. of Olonctz. 



VODLO, a lake of Rufiia, in the government of Olo- 

 nctz ; 16 miles N. of Pudoga. 



VOECA, in AndrnI Geography, a town of Hifpania Ci- 

 terior, belonging to tlie Callaici Lucenfes. Ptolemy. 



VOEGLARBY, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in 

 DalccarUfl ; 17 miles S. of Fahlun. 



VOEN, a river of China, which runs into the Hoai, 10 

 miles E.N.E. of Ngan-kieou, in the province of Chan- 

 long. 



VOERDEN. SeeVoRDEN. 



VOET, GiSBERT, in Biography, an eminent Dutch di- 

 vine, was born at Heufden in the year 1589; and after 

 having purfued his ftudies at Leyden for fevcn years, and 

 fuperintending fome churches taken from the Catholics, he 

 fettled in 1617 in his native place, where he exercifed his 

 miniftry with exemplary diligence. In 1634 he was ad- 

 vanced to th? chair of theology and the oriental languages 

 in the univerfity of Utrecht, and became co-paftor .in one 

 of the churches. About this time the Cartefian pliilofo- 

 phy engaged attention, and its progrefs fo alarmed Voet, 

 that, in 1639, he made a public attack upon its principles, 

 charging them with an atheiftical tendency ; and in this at- 

 tack, though Des Cartes defended himfelf with acutenefs, 

 and not without treating his adverfary with fome degree of 

 contempt, Voet was fupported by the majority of the 

 Dutch clergy, and alfo by the States of Holland. Befides 

 his writings againft Des Cartes, he wrote alfo feveral theo- 

 logical works ; and continued in the exercife of his various 

 funftions at Utrecht till his death in 1677, at the advanced 

 age of eighty-eight years. His fon, Paul Voet, was born 

 in 1 61 9, and became profefTor of law at Utrecht, where he 

 publifhed various works in the department of his profeflion. 

 He died in 1667. John Voet, the fon of Paul, was a 

 profelTor of law at Leyden, and the author of a highly 

 valued " Commentary on the Pandefts," 2 vols, folio, 

 1698 — 1704. He died in 1714. Moreri. Motheim. 



VOG, in Commerce, a weight in Denmark, containing 

 three bifmerpoiids, or thirty-fix pounds. 



VOGEL, in Geography, a finall ifland in the Eaft In- 

 dian fea. S. lat. 5° 12'. E. long. 130° 46'. — Alfo, a river 

 of Auilria, which runs into the Traun, 8 miles S.W. of 

 Wels. 



VocEL Iflands, a clutter of fmall illands near the W. 

 coaft of Siam. N. lat. 7° 38'. E. long. 98^" 55'. 



VOGELIA, in Botany, bears that name, doubtlcfs, in 

 memory either of Benedict Chriftian Vogel, profefFor at 

 Altorf, born in 1744, who publiflud in 1768, a fmall aca- 

 demical elTay, on the Generation of Plants ; or of Rudolph 

 Auguilin Vogel, profen"or at Gottingen, who died in 1774, 

 aged 50, having written on the lleep of plants, on the balfam 

 of Mecca, and on various mineralogic.il fubjefts. — Lamarck 

 Illuftr. V. I. 376. t. 149. — Clafs and order, Pentandria Mo- 

 nogynia. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx inferior, of five ovate, folded, tranf- 

 verfely corrugated leaves. Corolla of one petal, tubular, 

 plaited, five-cleft. Stigma m five capillary fegments. 



The figure rcprefents a branched plant, with fmall, al- 

 ternate, nearly feflile, inverfely heart-fliaped, entire leaves, 

 each tipped with a fmall point, and dotted on the furface. 

 Flowers in folitary terminal fpihts near two inches long. 

 Corolla an inch long. Stamens within the tube, equ.al, ca- 

 pillary. Germen ovate. Style capillary. — The letter-prcls 

 of Lamarck's work has not extended to this, liis 4C5th 

 genus, except fo far as to give its eftl'ntial charafter, nor 

 do we find any traces of Vogelia in his or Poiret's part 

 of their Diftionary. We are therefore in the dark as to 

 the number of fpecies of this genus, its native country, or 

 any other particular in its hiftory. The plate above quoted 

 is in Plumier's ftyle. 



{■'ogelia is alfo a fynonymn of Tiuptehella ; fee that 

 article. 



VOGELSANG, in Grograbhy, a town of Pruflia, on 

 the Frifch Nerunrr- ; 13 miUs N. of Elbing. 



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