Vulturn us

, a river of Camp an i a rising in the A pennines, and falling into the Tyrrhene sea, after pa ing by the town of Capua. Lucretius , bk. 5 , li. 664 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 7 , li. 729 .――The god of the Tiber was also known by that name. Varro , de Lingua Latina , bk. 4 , ch. 5 .――The wind, which received the name of Vulturn us when it blew from the side of the Vulturn us, highly incommoded the Romans at the battle of Cannæ. Livy , bk. 22 , chs. 43 & 46.――A surname of Apollo on mount Li us in Ionia, near Ephesus. The god received this name from a shepherd who raised him a temple after he had been drawn out of a subterraneous cavern by vultures.