Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), V, Veterinarius, Vibo

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Vibo

Now Bivona; the Roman form of the Greek name Hipponium, a town situated on the southwest coast of Bruttium, and on a gulf called after it Sinus Vibonensis, or Hipponiātes. It is said to have been founded by the Locri Epizephyrii; but it was destroyed by the elder Dionysius, who transplanted its inhabitants to Syracuse. It was afterwards restored; and at a later time it fell into the hands of the Bruttii, together with the other Greek cities on this coast. It was taken from the Bruttii by the Romans, who colonized it B.C. 194, and called it Vibo Valentia. Cicero speaks of it as a municipium; and in the time of Augustus it was one of the most flourishing cities in the south of Italy.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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