Vadicassii
Οὐαδικάσσιοι
Eth. Vadicassii (Eth. Οὐαδικάσσιοι), a people of Gallia Lugdunensis, whom Ptolemy (2.8.16) places on the borders of Belgica, and next to the Meldae. He assigns to the Vadicassii a city Noeomagus. D'Anville concludes that following Ptolemy's data we may place his Vadicassii in Valois, which is between Meaux and Soissons. He remarks that Valois is Vadisus in the capitularies of Charles the Bald, and Vadensis in the later acts. Other geographers have different opinions. In many of the editions of Pliny (4.18) we find enumerated Andegavi, Viducasses, Vadiocasses, Unelli;
but only one MS. has Vadiocasses,
and the rest have Bodiocasses or Bodicasses, which we must take to be the true reading, and they seem to be the same as the BAIOCASSES (D'Anville. Notice, &c.; Ukert, Gallien.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.