vicus

Noun

(plural vici)

a small civilian settlement outside a Roman fort

Origin

Latin vīcus (“village”).

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Fulvius Flaccus gained a triumph for his victory, and it was probably then that the statue of Vertumnus which stood in the Vicus Tuscus at Rome was brought from Volsinii.
Under the Romans Dijon (Divonense castrum) was a vicus in the civitas of Langres.
Germersheim existed as a Roman stronghold under the name of Vicus Julius.
Was situated the village of Vicus Augustanus Laurentium, taking its name probably from Augustus himself, and probably identical with the village mentioned by Pliny the younger as separated by only one villa from his own.
Cagli occupies the site of an ancient vicus (village) on the Via Flaminia, which seems to have borne the name Cale, 24 m.

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