I.a town on the borders of Apulia and Lucania, the birthplace of the poet Horace, now Venosa, Plin. 3, 11, 16, § 104; Cic. Att. 5, 5, 1; 16, 5, 3; Liv. 22, 49; 22, 54; Vell. 1, 14, 6.—Hence, Vĕnŭsīnus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Venusia, Venusian: “silvae,” Hor. C. 1, 28, 26: “colonus,” i. e. Horace, id. S. 2, 1, 35: “lucerna,” i. e. the poetry of Horace, Juv. 1, 51.—Subst.: Vĕ-nŭsīni , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Venusia, the Venusians, Liv. 22, 54; 27, 10.
Vĕnŭsĭa , ae, f.,