VEIL 41 VEITCH. walls on the approach of the Konian legions, and of sallying out on predatory expeditions as soon as they had retired. To relieve the Republic from this annoyance, the FaLiian elan, to the number of 30ti, with tlieir followers, probably ten times as numerous, undertook to garrison a fortress near Veii, and to act as a guard against the nuxrauders. They were, however, enticed into an ambuscade, and cut off to a man at the Cre- niera. For the next sixty years hostilities often broke out, followed by ill-observed truces. At last the Komans determined to rid themselves of their rival by a siege. Tlie city is said to have held out for ten years until it was finally taken by Camillus (c.39(i B.C.). After its fall it was gradually deserted; and although, in later times, a colony was planted there by C'iesar, and again by Augustus, it always remained an insignificant place. There are remains of the Etruscan and also of the Roman city. VEILE, va'y'-le. A port and the capital of the district of Veile in Jutland, Denmark, situ- ated in a beautiful hilly and forested region, at the numth of the Veile, and at the head of the Veile Fiord, 16 miles northwest of Fredericia (Map: Denmark. C 3). Fisheries principally engage the attention of the people. Population, in 1901, 14,592. VEILED PROPHET OF KORASSAN, ko'- r&s-siin'. The. See Hakim Ibn All.-vh. VEIN (OF., Fr. veine, from Lat. vena, blood- vessel, from vehere, to carry, convey). In anatomy, a blood vessel which conducts the venous (or blue) blood from the capillaries back to the heart. The exceptions to this description are the pulmonary veins, which return the red, oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart; the portal veins, which receive the blood from the pyloric, gastric, cystic, superior mesenteric, and splenic veins, and, entering the liver, break up into small branches which pass through all parts of that organ ; and the umbilical veins, which convey the blood from the fa'tus to the mother's placenta. The veins enlarge as they proceed, gathering blood from their tributaries, and finally pour it through the ascending and de- scending vcnw cnvw into the right auricle of the heart. (See Circulation.) Their coats are similar to those of the arteries, but much thinner, and even transparent. The internal coat consists of an epithelial layer, supported on several la- minae of longitudinal elastic fibres. The middle or contractile coat consists of numerous alter- nating layers of muscular and elastic fibres, the muscular fibres being disposed circularly round the vessel. The muscular fibres are wanting in some parts of the venous system, and specially developed in others. In the i^enw carw and pul- monary veins near the heart, striped nuiscular fibres may be detected, continuous with those in the auricles. The external or areolar fibrous coat consists of connective or areolar tissue, and of longitudinal elastic fibres: within some of the larger veins, as the inferior rr»a cava, through its whole length, the external iliacs. the azygos, etc., there is also a longitudinal network of un- striped muscular fibres. Valves are most numer- ous in the veins of the extremities, especially the lower ones, these vessels having to act against the force of gravity more than most others. They are absent in the vence oat'CE, the hepatic, portal. renal, pulmonary, and some other large veins, and in very snuUl veins generally. The veins are nourished by nutrient vessels, or vasa vaso- rum, like the arteries; but except in a few in- stances (including the inferior vena cava), nerves, are not distributed to them. The chief diseases of the venous system have been already sufficiently described in the articles Phlebitis, or Inflammation of the Veins; Phlebolite; Phleumasia Alba Dolens, ob Milk-Leg; Thrombosis; and Varicose Veins. VEINS (in geology). See Ore Deposits. VEIT, fit, PiiiLiPP (1793-1S77). A German historical painter, born in Berlin. First in- structed by Fricdrich JMatthai at the Dresden Academy, he continued his studies in Vienna until 1813, when he entered the German Army, and fought in the War of Liberation. In 1815 he went to Eome, where he identified him- self with the Nazarites, painted in the Casa Partholdi '"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife" and "The Seven Years of Plenty" (both now in the National Gallery. Berlin), and in the Villa Mas- simi the "Paradise" in the Dante room. Among his other works at Rome were the "Triumph of Religion," in the Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican, and the "Coronation of the Virgin," in Trinita de' Monti. In 1830 he was appointed director of the Stadel Institute at Frankfort. To this period belong "The Two Marys at the Sepul- chre" (National Gallery, Berlin), the portraits of Charlemagne, Otho the Great, Frederick II., and Henry VII., for the Rcjnier, and the great triptych in fresco, "Introduction of the Arts into Germany through Christianity," with "Italia" and "Germania" (1836, Stiidel Insti- tute). In 1834 Veit resigned his position and settled at Saehsenhausen, whence, in 1853, he was called to Mainz as director of the Gallery. To this period belong the "Assumption" (1840. in the Liebfrauenkirche, Frankfort), "Repose in Egypt" and "Magnificat" (1863. both in the Stadel Institute, ib. ) , and the cartoons for a cycle from .sacred history for the Cathedral at !Mainz, subsequently executed by his pupils Sette- gast, Lasinsky, and Karl Herrmann. Of his portraits, that of Abbe Noirlieu (Stadel In- stitute), and one of himself (Mainz Gallery), are among the most noteworthy. His brother Johannes (1790-1854) was an' historical painter of some note. Consult Spahn, Philipp Yeit (Bielefeld, 1901). VEITCH, vech, John (1829-94). A Scottish philosopher and author, born in Peebles. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh with a view to the ministry in the Free Church, but gave up his intention, owing to a want of sym- pathy with the current theology. " After ser-ing for four years as -assistant to Sir William Ham- ilton and Campbell Eraser, he became professor of logic, rhetoric, and metaphysics in the Uni- versity of Saint Andrews (1860-64), and pro- fessor of logic and rhetoric in the University of Glasgow, from 1864 till his death, September 3, 1894. Among his works pertaining to phi- losophy are the Memoir of Dugald Stewart (1857); Memoir of Sir William Hamilton (1869); Institutes of Lociic (1885); Knoicing and Being (1889): and Dualism and Monixm (ed. by R. M. Wenley. 1895). He also joined H. L. Mansel in editing Hamilton's Lectures
