Victoria

the personification of victory among the Romans, as Nice was among the Greeks. Dionysius (1.33) relates that Evander by the command of Minerva dedicated on mount Palatine a temple of Victoria, the daughter of Pallas. On the site of this ancient temple a new one was built by L. Postumius, during the war with the Samnites; and M. Porcius Cato added to it a chapel of Victoria Virgo. In later times there existed three or four sanctuaries of Victory at Rome. (Liv. 10.33, 29.14, 35.9; P. Victor, Reg. Urb. iv. vii. viii.) [L.S]

or Victori'na, the name given by Trebellius Pollio to the mother of Victorinus, and with her he completes his catalogue of the thirty tyrants [see Aureolus], two more being thrown in as supernumeraries. According to this historian after the death of her son she was hailed as the mother of camps (Mater Castrorum); and coins were struck, bearing her effigy, in brass, silver, and gold. Feeling herself however unequal to the weight of empire, she transferred her power first to Marius, and then to Tetricus, by whom some say that she was slain, while others affirm that she died a natural death. Two medals have been described, one bearing the legend IMP. VICTORIA. AUG., the other IMP. VICTORINA AUG. ; but they seem to be unique and are open to suspicion. (Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyrann. iv., vi., xxx., mentions both of the above names; Aurel. Vict. de Caes. xxxiii. the former only; comp. Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 454.) [W.R]

VICTO´RIA (Οὐικτωρία, Ptol. 2.3.9), the most eastern place belonging to the Damnonii in Britannia Barbara. Camden (p. 1190) thinks that it is Bede's Caer Guidi, and that it stood on Inchkeith Island, in the Frith of Forth; but Horsley is of opinion that it is Abernethy, near Perth.

The Roman goddess of Victory, said to be the daughter of Minerva, by whose command a temple to her was said to have been erected on the Palatine by Evander. In later times there were at least three sanctuaries in Rome that bore her name. For the Greek goddess of Victory, see Nike.