Vacca

VACCA


1. (Sall. J. 29, &c.) or VAGA (Sil. It. 3.259; Οὐάγα, Ptol. 4.3.28; Βάγα, Procop. de Aed. 6.5), an important town and place of considerable commerce in the interior of Numidia, lying a long day's journey SW. of Utica. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.4) calls it Vagense Oppidum. It was destroyed by Metellus (Sail. J. 69); but afterwards restored and inhabited by the Romans. Justinian surrounded it with a wall, and named it Theodoria, in honour of his consort. (Procop. l. c.;cf. Strab. 17. p. 831; Sall. J. 47, 68; Plut. Mar. 8. p. 409.) Now Bayjah( Begia, Beggia, Bedsja) in Tunis, on the borders of Algiers. (Cf. Shaw, Travels, 1. p. 183.) Vaga is mentioned by the Geogr. Nub. ( Clim. 3.1. p. 88) under the name of Bagia, and by Leo Afric. (p. 406, Lorsbach) under that of Beggia, as a place of considerable commerce.


2. A town in Byzacium in Africa Proper, lying to the S. of Ruspinum (Hirt. B. Afr. 74). This is probably the aliud Vagense oppidumof Pliny (l. c.). [T.H.D]