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 (
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. xvii. 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, i. 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 oppidum” of Pliny (
l.c.). [
T.H.D]
