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vīcus , i, m. Sanscr. vēcas, vēcman, house; Gr. οἶκος; O. H. Germ. wīch, village; and Engl. -wick or -wich, as in Berwick, Norwich.
I. Collectively, a row of houses in town or country, a quarter of a city, a street, Cic. Mil. 24, 64; Caes. B. C. 1, 27; Hor. S. 2, 3, 228; id. Ep. 1, 20, 18; 2, 1, 269; Ov. F. 6, 610 al.
II. A village, hamlet, a country-seat: “si quis Cobiamacho, qui vicus inter Tolosam et Narbonem est, deverterentur,Cic. Font. 5, 9; Caes. B. G. 1, 5; 2, 7; 4, 4; Liv. 38, 30, 7; Tac. G. 12; Cic. Fam. 14, 1, 5; Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 8; 1, 15, 7; 2, 2, 177 al.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 14.1.5
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.5
    • Cicero, For Marcus Fonteius, 5.9
    • Cicero, For Milo, 24.64
    • Horace, Satires, 2.3.228
    • Caesar, Civil War, 1.27
    • Tacitus, Germania, 12
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 38, 30
    • Ovid, Fasti, 6
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