Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vicus

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

VI'CUS (κώμη). In the primary notion, a habitation, taken in a collective sense, as a number of houses contiguous to each other; thence, a street with houses on each side, both in a country village or a city; and so a division or quarter of a town, consisting of a certain number of streets and houses. Hor. Epist. ii. 1. 269. Ov. Fast. vi. 609. Cic. Mil. 24.