Fabius Vibulanus, fell in
battle against the Veicntes in the year of Rome 274.
battle against the Veicntes in the year of Rome 274.
Charles - 1867 - Classical Dictionary
(Eurip.
, Heraclid.
, 928, tcqq.
-- Compare
hocr. , Paneg. , 15. )
Eurytis (idos), a patronvmic of Iole, daugnter of
Eurytus. {Ovid, Met. , 9, 395. )
Eorytus, a monarch of CEchalia, who taught Her-
cules the use of the bow. (Apollod. , 2,4,9. --Heyne,
id loc. ) He offered his daughter Iole to him who
should surpass himself and his sons in archery. Her-
cules conquered, but Eurytus refused to give his
daughter to the hero, who therefore put him and his
sons to death, and led away Iole captive. (Apollod. ,
2, 6, 1. --Id. , 2, 7, 7. )
EusrbTus Pamphili, I. one of the most distinguished
among the earlier Christian writers, and the friend of
Constantine, was born in Palestine, probably at Cmsa-
rea, about 264 A. D. He pursued his studies at Anti-
och, and is believed to have received holy orders from
Agapius, bishop of C;rsarea. After having been or-
dained presbyter, he set up a school in his native city,
and formed an intimate acquaintance with Pamphilus,
bishop of Csesarca, who suffered martyrdom under
Galerius, A. D. 309, and in memory of whose friendship
he added to his name the term Pamphili, i. c , "(the
friend) of Pamphilus. " After the martyrdom of his
friend he removed to Tyre, and thence to Egypt, where
he himself was imprisoned. On hia return from
Egypt, he succeeded Agapius in the sei of Cssarea,
AJ[). 315. In common with many other biahops of
Palestine, he at first espoused the cause of Arius; but
at the council of Nice, in 325, where the Emperor Con-
namine assigned to Eusebius the office of opening the
session of the assembly, the opinions of the heresiarch
were condemned. He is said, however, to have raised
iome objections to the words " consubstantial with the
Father," as applied to the Son in the Nicene creed.
His intimacy with his namesake Eusebius, bishop of
Nicomedia, who openly espoused the cause of Arius,
led him also to favour the same, and to use his influ-
ence with the emperor for the purpose of reinstating
Arius in the church, in defiance of the opposition of
Athanasius. The party to which he attached himself
were called Eusebians, from their leader Eusebius of
Nicomedia, and they seem to have acted in a great
degree through hostility towards Athanasius ana his
supporters, as they did not, as yet, openly advocate the
objectionable tenets of Arius, who had himself appa-
rently submitted to the decrees of the council of Nice.
Eusebius afterward, in 330, assisted at the council of
Antioch, where the Arians triumphed, and he was pres-
ent at the council of Tyre in 335, and joined those
bishops who censured the proceedings of Athanasius,
the great champion of orthodoxy. Eusebius was de-
puted by this council to defend before Constantine the
judgment which they had passed against Athanasius;
and he appears to have used his influence with the em-
peror to have Athanasius banished. The part which
he look in this unfortunate controversy caused him to
be stigmatized as an Arian, though it appears that he
fully admitted the divinity of Christ; a'. :J all thru his
? ? accusers can prove is, that he believed there was a cer-
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EUSEP-IUS.
in sufficiently novel in its ntture to merit such notice.
An account of the Armenian version is also given by
Saint Martin (Journal des Savant, 1820, p. 106).
Tbe conclusion to which the last-mentioned writer ar-
rives, is as follows: that the great advantages ex-
pected to have been derived from the version to which
we are referring, must be graduated much lower than
lhey originally were; and yet, at the same time, that
ihis discovery is of sufficient importance to merit hon-
ourable mention, since it givea a great degree of cer-
tainty lo many particulars, of which we were before
put in possession relative to ancient history, and ren-
ders incontestable the authority of the Greek fragments
published by Scaliger. --Eusebius was also the author
of an Ecclesiastical History ('EKKknaiaOTiidi loropia),
in ten books, from the origin of Christianity down lo
A. D. 324, a year which immediately preceded the
triumph of the Catholic church over Arianism. This
work contains no express history of church dogmas.
The author proposed to himself a different object,
which he specifies in the first book. It was to make
known the succession of the apostles, and the individ-
uals who, placed a* the head of the different churches,
distinguished themselves by their firmness and apos-
tolic virtues, or who defended the word of God by their
writings; to make mention of the persons who had
endeavoured to propagate false doctrines; to describe
the misfortunes and sufferings that had befallen the
Jewish nation, as a punishment for their rejection of
the Saviour; as well as the persecutions to which the
faithful had been exposed, and the triumph procured
for Christianity by the Emperor Constantine. A sec-
ondary object which Eusebius bad in view, although
he does not expressly mention it, was to transmit to
posterity literary notices of those writers who had
treated before him of detached portions of the sacred
history. What he proposed to himself, however, was
leu to instruct and edify the faithful, than to place in
the bands of the Gentiles a work which might induce
them to renounce the errors of their religious systems
and the prejudices of education. One is tempted, at
least, to ascribe this intention to him, when we call to
mind that his work contains a number of things known
lo every Christian reader; such as, for example, all
that relates to the person of our Saviour, and the au-
thenticity of the sacred writings; and also when we
consider the skill he has displayed in placing in a
prominent point of view the claims of Christianity,
without, at the same time, making any direct attack on
he absurdities of paganism. As Eusebius makes no
mention of the troubles occasioned in the church by
the doctrines of Arianism, it has been concluded that
his history was not continued by him during the last
sixteen years of his life (for he lived until 340); but
that, being brought down by him to an epoch anterior
to the council of Nice, it was concluded in 324. In
support of this opinion it may be remarked, that Pan-
inus, tbe bishop, to whom he addresses himself at the
commencement of the tenth book, was dead in 325.
(Consult Haake. dc Byzantinarum rerum seriptoribus
liber. Lips. , 1677, 4-to, pt. I, c. \, t 222. ) In gen-
eral, Eusebius may be called a moderate, impartial,
and judicious writer. His history was translated into
Latin by Rufinuo, a priest of Aquileia, in the fourth cen-
tury: he has made, however, retrenchments as well as
additions, and has added a supplement in two books,
which extends to the death of Theodosius the Great.
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BUT
m> Igilowing books, down to (he thirteenth inclusive,
the author undertakes to show, that the Greek writers
have derived from the Sacred volume whatever they
have taught of valuable or good in matters of philoso-
phy: such) according to him, is the case especially
with Plato. Th2 fourteenth ajid fifteenth books la-
bour to prove, that in the philosophical opinions of the
Greeks there reign evident contradictions; that the
ma :rity of these opinions have no belter foundation
'. ban mere hypothesis, and swarm with errors. --We
must not omit another work of our author's, entitled,
Hepl tuv tokikCiv 'Ovo/iutuv iv ry oVp ypatyy, "Of
the places mentioned in the sacred writings. " It was
in two books. The second book, which treats of Pal-
estine, has alone reached us; we have it in Greek, and
ilso in a Latin vcrsicn by St. Jerome. The version
would be preferable to the original, by reason of the
corrections which Jerome made in the work, from his
intimate acquaintance with the country, if it had not
reached us u a very corrupt state. --The best editions
of the work on chronology are, that of Scaliger, Lugd.
Bat. , 1659, fol. , and that of Mai and Zohrab, Medio-
lan. , 1818, 4to: the best editions of the Ecclesiasti-
cal History are, that of H. Stephens, Paris, 1544,
fol. , reprinted with the Latin version of Christophor-
son, at Geneva, 1612; and that of Heinichen, Lips. ,
1827, 1 vol. 8vo. The life of Constantino accom-
panies the first of these. --The best edition of the
Prsparatio Evangelica is that of Vigier, Paris, 1628,
fol. , reprinted at Leipzig, 1688, fol. --II. A native
of Emeaa, surnamed Pittacus, slain in 554 by order
of the Emperor Gallus, and to whom Ammianus Mar-
cellinus (14, 7) gives the title of " eonatatus orator. "
--III. A native of Myndus, in (. 'ana, a contemporary
of the preceding. Eunapius makes mention of him in
the life of Maximus; and, according to Wyttenbach
(Eunap. , cd. Boissonade, p. 171), he is the same with
a third Euscbius, of whom Stobsus has left us two
fragments.
Kisnniirs. I. archbishop of Thessalonica, nour-
ished in the 12th century under the emperors Manuel,
Alexius, and Andronicus Comnenus. He is celebra-
ted for his erudition as a grammarian, and is especially
knewn as a commentator on Homer and Dionysius
the geographer. It must be confessed, however, that
in the former of these commentaries he is largely
indebted to the Deipnosophislae of Athcnasus, and
Schweighaeuser holds the following strong language
relative to the extent of these obligations (Prof, ad.
Atlien. , p. xix. ): "In Eustathii in Homtrum Com-
mentariis Athcnaus noster a capite ad calcem (verts-
stmt dixcris) utrami/uc paginam facil: adeoque est
inrrediUIis et pane xnfinitus locorum Humerus, quibus
doctus iUe prasul ex uno Athcnai fonte hortulos suos
irrigavit, ul sapc etiam notissimorum nobilissimorum-
que auctorum, quorum ubivis obvia ipsa scripta sunt,
unius ejusdem Athcnai verbis produxerit testimonia;
utque, nisi de viri doctnna aliunde satis constaret,
subindc propemodum vidcri Me posset c solo Naucrat-
vii Deipnosophisla sapuis. se. " (Compare the note of
the same editor, and Fabricius, Bibl. Grac. , vol. 1,
p. 316, seqq. ) The commentary of Euslathius was
united to the edition of Homer which appeared it
Rome in 1542. 1548, 1550, in 3 vols, folio: tr. . S was
reprinted at Bale in 1560, also in 3 vols, fv'io. The
latest edition is the Leipzigoneof 1825-30,6 to':j. i:o:
for that of Politus, undertaken in 1730, with a I. aiiri
? ? version, was never finished. The three volumes jf
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FAB
rated style, inasmuch as be will have to traat of great
personages still living; "quia ad inelytos principcs
tenerandosque pervenlum est. " It does not appear
that be ever carried this plan into execution. The
tat. edition is that of Tzschucke, Lips. , 1797, 8vo. --
II. A eunuch and minister of the Emperor Arcadius,
*ho rose by base and infamous practices from the vilest
? tradition to the highest pitch of opulence and power.
He was probably a native of Asia, was made chamber-
lain to the emperor in the year 395, and, after the fall of
Rufinus, succeeded that minister in the confidence of
bis mas>? r, and rose to unlimited authority. He even
was created consul, a disgrace to Rome never before
equalled. An insult offered to the empress was the
cause of his overthrow; and he was sent into perpet-
ual exile to Cyprus. He was soon afterward, however,
Drought back on another charge; and, after being con-
demned, was beheaded A. D. 399. (Zosim. , 5, 10. --
Id. , b, 18, &c. )
EdxLnxs Pontus. Vid. Pontus Euxinus.
Ex. ishvecs, a fountain which, according to Herod-
otus, flows into the Hypanis, where the river is four
days' journey from the sea, and renders its waters bit-
ter, that before were sweet. Herodotus places this
fountain in the country of the ploughing Scythians,
and of the Alazones. It takes, he adds, the name of
the place where it springs, which, in the Scythian
tongue, is Examrneus, corresponding in Greek to icpal
Hot, or " the sacred mays. " (Herodot. , 4, 62. )
F.
Fababis, now far/a, a river of Italy, in the terri-
rry of the Sabines, called also Farfaris. ( Virg. , . En. ,
. 715. )
Fabia Gens, a numerous and powerful patrician
jioe of ancient Rome, which became subdivided into
leveral families or branches, distinguished by their re-
spective cognomina, such as Fabii Maximi, Fabii Am-
busti, Fabii Vibulani, <5cc. Pliny says that the name
of Ibis bouse arose from the circumstance of its found-
en having excelled in the culture of the bean (faba),
the early Romans having been remarkable for their at-
tachment to agricultural pursuits. (P'm. , 18,3. ) Ac-
cording to Fcslua, however, the Fabii traced their ori-
gin to Hercules (Fest. , s. r. Fabii), and their name,
therefore, is thought to have come rather from the
Etrurian term Fains <rr Fabia, which Passeri makes
equivalent to "august" or "venerable. " (Tab. Eu-
cubin, vii , tin. 22. ) But this etymology is less prob-
able, since the Fabii are B<<-:d, by the ordinary author-
ities, to have been of Sab. nc origin, and to have set-
tled on the Quirinal from the time of the earliest Ro-
man kings. After the expulsion of the Tarquinii, the
Fabian, as one of the older houses, exercised consider-
able influence in the senate. Casso Fabius, being
quaestor with L. Valerius, impeached Spurius Cassius,
B C. 486. A. U. C. 268, and had him evecuted. It has
been noted as a remarkable fact, that, for seven consec-
utive years from that time, one of the two annual con-
sulships was filled by three brothers Fabii in rotation.
Niebuhr has particularly investigated this oeriod of
Roman history, and speculated on the causes of this
long retention of office by the Fabii, as connected with
the straggle then pending between the patricians and
plebeians, and the attempt of the former to monopolize
'be elections. (Rom. Hist, vol. 2, p. 174, scqq. )
Oae of the three brothers, Q.
Fabius Vibulanus, fell in
battle against the Veicntes in the year of Rome 274.
? ? In the following year, under the consulship of Caeso
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FAB
pofunity of availing himself of any error or neglect on
the part of the Carthaginians. This mode of warfare,
which was new to the Romans, acquired for Fabius
the name of Cunetator or "delayer," and was cen-
sured by the yong, the rash, and the ignorant; but
* probably was the means of saving Koine from ruin.
Uinucius, who shared with Fabius the command of the
army, having imprudently engaged Hannibal, was
saved from total destruction by the timely assistance
tf tha dictator. In the following year, however,
A U. C. 636, Fabius being recalled to Rome, the com-
? and of the army was intrusted to the consul Tcren-
tus Varro, who rushed imprudently to battle, and the
defeat at Carina made manifest the wisdom of the dic-
tator's previous caution. Fabius was chosen consul
the next year, and was again employed in keeping
Hannibal in check. In A. U. C. 543, being consul for
the fifth time, he retook Tarentum by stratagem, after
which he narrowly escaped being caught himself in a
snare by Hannibal near Metapontum. (Lit. , 27, 15,
seq. ) When, some years after, the question was dis-
cussed in the senate, of sending Scipio with an army
into Africa, Fabius opposed it, saying that Italy ought
first to be rid of Hannibal. Fabius died some time
after at a very advanced age. His son, called likewise
Quintus Fabius Maximus, who had also been consul,
died before him. His grandson Quintus Fabius Max-
imus Servilianus, being proconsul, fought against Vir-
iathus in Spain, and concluded with him an honour-
able peace. (Livy, Epit? 54. ) He was afterward
consul repeatedly, and also censor. He wrote An-
nals, which are quoted by Macrobius. (Sal. , 1, 16. )
His brother by adoption, Quintus Fabius Maximus
yErmlianus, the son of Paulus jEmilius (Lie. , 45,41),
was consul A. U. C. 609, and was the father of Fabius,
called Allobrogicus, who subdued not only the Allo-
broges, but also the people of southern Gaul, which he
reduced into a Roman province, called from that time
Provincia. Quintus Fabius Maximus, a grandson of
fabius Maximus Servilianus, served in Spain under
J jIius Caesar, and was made consul A. U. C. 709. Two
of his sons or nephews were consuls in succes-
sion under Augustus. There was also a Fabius con-
sul under Tiberius. Panvinius and othera have reck-
oned that, during a period of about five centuries, from
the time of the first Fabius who is mentioned as con-
sul, to the reign of Tiberius, forty-eight consulships,
seven dictatorships, eight censorships, seven augur-
ahips, besides the offices of master of the horse and
military tribune with consular power, were filled by
individuals of the Fabian house. It could also boast
of thirteen tiiumphs and two ovations. (Augustimts
dt Familiis Komanorum. --Encyct. Us. Knotcl. , vol.
10, p. 151. )--IV. A loquacious personage alluded to
by Horaoe (Sal. , 1, 1, 14). --V. Pictor, the first Ro-
man who wrole an historical account of his country.
This historian, called by Livy scriptorum nntiquissi-
nuts, appears to have been wretchedly qualified for the
labour he had undertaken, either in point of judgment,
fidelity, or research; and to his carelessness and inac-
curacy, more than even to the loss of monuments, may
be attributed the painful uncertainty which to this dav
bangs over the early ages of Roman history. Fabius
lived in the time of the second Punic war. The fam-
ily feceived it* cognomen from Caius Fabius. who, hav-
ing resided in Etruria, and there acquired some knowl-
edge -of the fine arte, painted with figures the temple
? ? ? f Saius, in the year of the city 450. The historian
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FALERNUS AQER.
FiiscL^, now Fiesoli, a town of Italy, in Etruria,
oulheast of Pistoria, whence it is said the augurs
passed to Rome. Catiline made it a place of arms,
ihe Goths, when they entered Italy under the consu-
late ofStdicboand Aurelian, AD. 400, were defeated
in its vicinity. (Cir. . pro Mur. , 24. --SU. Ltd. , 8,478.
Sil. usi, Cat. , 27. )
Fajctdia Lki, proposed by the tribune Falcidius,
A. U. C. 713, enacted that the testator ahould leave at
hut the fourth part of his fortune to tho person whom
za named his heir. (Dio Cass. , 48, 33. )
Faleru, a town of Picenum, southwest of Firmum,
now Faliermi (Pirn. , 3, 13. )
Falerii (or ium), a city of Etruria, southwest of
Fescennium, and the capital of the ancient Falisci,
so well known from their connexion with the early his-
tory of Rome. Much uncertainty seems to have ex-
isted respecting the ancient site of this place; but it
is now well ascertained that it occupied the posi-
tion of the present Chita Castellana. Cluver, and
after him Holstcnius (ad Steph. Byz. , p. 67), have
satisfactorily established this point. The doubt seems
to have originated in the notion that there was a city
named Faliscum, as welt as Falerii. (Strabo, 226. )
The situation of the ancient Falerii is made to agree
with that of Civil a Castellana, from the language of
Plutarch (Vit. Camill. ) and Zonaras (Ann. , 2), who
both describe it as placed on a lofty summit; and the
latter states that the old town was destroyed, and a
new one built at the foot of the hill. This fact is con-
tinned by the identity of the new Falerii with the
church of St. Maria Falari, on the track of the Fla-
ramian way, where? the Itineraries place that city.
We learn, too, from Pliny (3, 5), that Falerii became
a colony under the name of Falisca, a circumstance
which sufficiently reconciles the apparent contradic-
tion in the accounts of this city. (Front. , de Col. , p.
130. ) Falerii, according to Dionysius of Halicarnas-
sos (1, 21), belonged at first to the Siculi; but these
were succeeded by the Pelasgi, to whom the Greek
form of its name is doubtless to be ascribed, as well
as the temple and riles of the Argive Juno, and other
indications of a Grecian origin which were observed
by that historian, and with which Ovid, who had mar-
ried a lady of this city, seems also to have been struck,
though he has followed the less authentic tradition,
which ascribed the foundation of Falerii to Halesus,
son of Agamemnon. (Am. , 3, 13. -- Fast. , 4, 73. )
The early wars of the Falisci with Rome are chiefly
detailed in the fifth book of Livy, where the celebra-
ted story of Camillus and the schoolmaster of Falerii
occurs. When the Roman commander was besie-
ging this place, the schoolmaster of the city (since the
higher classes of Falerii had a public one for the com-
mon education of their children) committed a most
disgraceful and treacherous act. Having led his schol-
ars forth, day after day, under pretence of taking ex-
ercise, and each time farther from the city walls, he
at last suddenly brought them within reach of the Ro-
nnn outposts, and surrendered them all to Camillus.
Indignant at the baseness of the deed, the Roman gen-
eral ordered his lictors to strip the delinquent, tie his
bands behind him, and supply the boys with rods and
scourges to punish the traitor, and whip him into the
city. This generous act on the part of Camillus pro-
duced so strong an impression on the minds of the in-
habitants, that they immediately sent ambassadors to
? ? treat of a surrender (Lis. 5,27. --Compare Vol. Max. ,
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FAtI
were usual'v mixed with certain quantities of pitch,
aromatic hens, sea-water, &c, which must have com-
municated to them a taste that we, at least, should
consider very unpalatable. Among the ancient, and
especially the Greek wines, it was no uncommon
thing for an age of more than 20 years to leave no-
thing in the vessel but a thick and bitter mixture, ari-
sing, no doubt, from the substances with which the
wine had been medicated. We have an exception,
however, to this, in the wine made in Italy during the
consulship of Opimius, A. U. C. 633, which was to be
met with in the time of Pliny, nearly 200 years after.
This may have been owmg to the peculiar qualities of
that vintage, since we are informed that, in conse-
quence of the great warmth of the summer in that
year, all the productions of the earth attained an ex-
traordinary legrcc of perfection. Vid. Caecubus Ager.
{Henderson's History of ancient and modern Wines, p.
81, seqq. )
Falibci, a people of Etruria. (Vid. Falerii. )
Faliscus Gratius. Vid. Gratius.
Fannia Lex, de Sumptilms, enacted A. U. C. 588.
It limited the expenses of one day, at festivals, to 100
isses, whence the law is called by Lucilius Centussis;
on ten other days every month to 30, and on all other
days to 10 asses: alao, that no other fowl should be
served up except one hen, and that not fattened for the
purpose. (Aid. Gell. , 2, 24. --Maerob. , Sat. , 2, 13. )
Fannius, an inferior poot, ridiculed by Horace
[Sat. . 1, 4, 21). It seems the legacy-hunters of the
day carried his writings and bust to the library of the
Palat'iK Apollo, a compliment only paid to produc-
tions of merit. The satirist remarks, that this was
unasked for on the part of Fannius (ultra delatis cap-
sis ct imagine); an expression of double import, since
ultro may also contain a sly allusion to the absence of
all mental exertion on the part of the poet. (Schol. et
Heindorf, ad Horat. , I. c. )
Fanusj Vacun^e, a temple of Vicuna, in the vicin-
ty of Horace's Sabine villa. (Hor. , Ep. , 1, 10, 49. )
It is supposed to have stood on the summit of Rocca
Giovane.
Farfaris. Vid. Fabaris.
Fauna, a goddess of the Latins. According to the
old Roman legends, by which all the Italian deities
were originally mortals, she was the daughter of Picus,
and the sister and wife of Faunus. One account makes
her to have never left her bower, or let herself be seen
of men; and to have been deified for this reason, be-
coming identical with the Bona Dea, and no man be-
ing allowed to enter her temple. (Maerob. , 1, 12. )
According to another tradition, she was not only re-
markable for her modesty, but also for her extensive
and varied knowledge. Having, however, on one oc-
casion, made free with the contents of a jar of wine,
she was beaten to death by her husband with myrtle-
twigs! Repenting, however, soon after of the deed, he
bestowed on her divine honours. Hence, in the cele-
bration of her sacred rites, myrtle boughs were care-
fully excluded; nor was any wine allowed to be
brought, under that name, into her temple; but it was
called "honey," and the vessel containing it also was
termed mellarium (scil. vas), i. e. , "a honey-jar. "
(Consult Maerob. , Sat. , 1, 12, and Spangenbcrg, de
Vet. hat. Relig. Domest. ,p. 64, where other versions
of the story are given. ) Fauna is said to have given
oracles from her temple after death, which circum-
?
hocr. , Paneg. , 15. )
Eurytis (idos), a patronvmic of Iole, daugnter of
Eurytus. {Ovid, Met. , 9, 395. )
Eorytus, a monarch of CEchalia, who taught Her-
cules the use of the bow. (Apollod. , 2,4,9. --Heyne,
id loc. ) He offered his daughter Iole to him who
should surpass himself and his sons in archery. Her-
cules conquered, but Eurytus refused to give his
daughter to the hero, who therefore put him and his
sons to death, and led away Iole captive. (Apollod. ,
2, 6, 1. --Id. , 2, 7, 7. )
EusrbTus Pamphili, I. one of the most distinguished
among the earlier Christian writers, and the friend of
Constantine, was born in Palestine, probably at Cmsa-
rea, about 264 A. D. He pursued his studies at Anti-
och, and is believed to have received holy orders from
Agapius, bishop of C;rsarea. After having been or-
dained presbyter, he set up a school in his native city,
and formed an intimate acquaintance with Pamphilus,
bishop of Csesarca, who suffered martyrdom under
Galerius, A. D. 309, and in memory of whose friendship
he added to his name the term Pamphili, i. c , "(the
friend) of Pamphilus. " After the martyrdom of his
friend he removed to Tyre, and thence to Egypt, where
he himself was imprisoned. On hia return from
Egypt, he succeeded Agapius in the sei of Cssarea,
AJ[). 315. In common with many other biahops of
Palestine, he at first espoused the cause of Arius; but
at the council of Nice, in 325, where the Emperor Con-
namine assigned to Eusebius the office of opening the
session of the assembly, the opinions of the heresiarch
were condemned. He is said, however, to have raised
iome objections to the words " consubstantial with the
Father," as applied to the Son in the Nicene creed.
His intimacy with his namesake Eusebius, bishop of
Nicomedia, who openly espoused the cause of Arius,
led him also to favour the same, and to use his influ-
ence with the emperor for the purpose of reinstating
Arius in the church, in defiance of the opposition of
Athanasius. The party to which he attached himself
were called Eusebians, from their leader Eusebius of
Nicomedia, and they seem to have acted in a great
degree through hostility towards Athanasius ana his
supporters, as they did not, as yet, openly advocate the
objectionable tenets of Arius, who had himself appa-
rently submitted to the decrees of the council of Nice.
Eusebius afterward, in 330, assisted at the council of
Antioch, where the Arians triumphed, and he was pres-
ent at the council of Tyre in 335, and joined those
bishops who censured the proceedings of Athanasius,
the great champion of orthodoxy. Eusebius was de-
puted by this council to defend before Constantine the
judgment which they had passed against Athanasius;
and he appears to have used his influence with the em-
peror to have Athanasius banished. The part which
he look in this unfortunate controversy caused him to
be stigmatized as an Arian, though it appears that he
fully admitted the divinity of Christ; a'. :J all thru his
? ? accusers can prove is, that he believed there was a cer-
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EUSEP-IUS.
in sufficiently novel in its ntture to merit such notice.
An account of the Armenian version is also given by
Saint Martin (Journal des Savant, 1820, p. 106).
Tbe conclusion to which the last-mentioned writer ar-
rives, is as follows: that the great advantages ex-
pected to have been derived from the version to which
we are referring, must be graduated much lower than
lhey originally were; and yet, at the same time, that
ihis discovery is of sufficient importance to merit hon-
ourable mention, since it givea a great degree of cer-
tainty lo many particulars, of which we were before
put in possession relative to ancient history, and ren-
ders incontestable the authority of the Greek fragments
published by Scaliger. --Eusebius was also the author
of an Ecclesiastical History ('EKKknaiaOTiidi loropia),
in ten books, from the origin of Christianity down lo
A. D. 324, a year which immediately preceded the
triumph of the Catholic church over Arianism. This
work contains no express history of church dogmas.
The author proposed to himself a different object,
which he specifies in the first book. It was to make
known the succession of the apostles, and the individ-
uals who, placed a* the head of the different churches,
distinguished themselves by their firmness and apos-
tolic virtues, or who defended the word of God by their
writings; to make mention of the persons who had
endeavoured to propagate false doctrines; to describe
the misfortunes and sufferings that had befallen the
Jewish nation, as a punishment for their rejection of
the Saviour; as well as the persecutions to which the
faithful had been exposed, and the triumph procured
for Christianity by the Emperor Constantine. A sec-
ondary object which Eusebius bad in view, although
he does not expressly mention it, was to transmit to
posterity literary notices of those writers who had
treated before him of detached portions of the sacred
history. What he proposed to himself, however, was
leu to instruct and edify the faithful, than to place in
the bands of the Gentiles a work which might induce
them to renounce the errors of their religious systems
and the prejudices of education. One is tempted, at
least, to ascribe this intention to him, when we call to
mind that his work contains a number of things known
lo every Christian reader; such as, for example, all
that relates to the person of our Saviour, and the au-
thenticity of the sacred writings; and also when we
consider the skill he has displayed in placing in a
prominent point of view the claims of Christianity,
without, at the same time, making any direct attack on
he absurdities of paganism. As Eusebius makes no
mention of the troubles occasioned in the church by
the doctrines of Arianism, it has been concluded that
his history was not continued by him during the last
sixteen years of his life (for he lived until 340); but
that, being brought down by him to an epoch anterior
to the council of Nice, it was concluded in 324. In
support of this opinion it may be remarked, that Pan-
inus, tbe bishop, to whom he addresses himself at the
commencement of the tenth book, was dead in 325.
(Consult Haake. dc Byzantinarum rerum seriptoribus
liber. Lips. , 1677, 4-to, pt. I, c. \, t 222. ) In gen-
eral, Eusebius may be called a moderate, impartial,
and judicious writer. His history was translated into
Latin by Rufinuo, a priest of Aquileia, in the fourth cen-
tury: he has made, however, retrenchments as well as
additions, and has added a supplement in two books,
which extends to the death of Theodosius the Great.
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BUT
m> Igilowing books, down to (he thirteenth inclusive,
the author undertakes to show, that the Greek writers
have derived from the Sacred volume whatever they
have taught of valuable or good in matters of philoso-
phy: such) according to him, is the case especially
with Plato. Th2 fourteenth ajid fifteenth books la-
bour to prove, that in the philosophical opinions of the
Greeks there reign evident contradictions; that the
ma :rity of these opinions have no belter foundation
'. ban mere hypothesis, and swarm with errors. --We
must not omit another work of our author's, entitled,
Hepl tuv tokikCiv 'Ovo/iutuv iv ry oVp ypatyy, "Of
the places mentioned in the sacred writings. " It was
in two books. The second book, which treats of Pal-
estine, has alone reached us; we have it in Greek, and
ilso in a Latin vcrsicn by St. Jerome. The version
would be preferable to the original, by reason of the
corrections which Jerome made in the work, from his
intimate acquaintance with the country, if it had not
reached us u a very corrupt state. --The best editions
of the work on chronology are, that of Scaliger, Lugd.
Bat. , 1659, fol. , and that of Mai and Zohrab, Medio-
lan. , 1818, 4to: the best editions of the Ecclesiasti-
cal History are, that of H. Stephens, Paris, 1544,
fol. , reprinted with the Latin version of Christophor-
son, at Geneva, 1612; and that of Heinichen, Lips. ,
1827, 1 vol. 8vo. The life of Constantino accom-
panies the first of these. --The best edition of the
Prsparatio Evangelica is that of Vigier, Paris, 1628,
fol. , reprinted at Leipzig, 1688, fol. --II. A native
of Emeaa, surnamed Pittacus, slain in 554 by order
of the Emperor Gallus, and to whom Ammianus Mar-
cellinus (14, 7) gives the title of " eonatatus orator. "
--III. A native of Myndus, in (. 'ana, a contemporary
of the preceding. Eunapius makes mention of him in
the life of Maximus; and, according to Wyttenbach
(Eunap. , cd. Boissonade, p. 171), he is the same with
a third Euscbius, of whom Stobsus has left us two
fragments.
Kisnniirs. I. archbishop of Thessalonica, nour-
ished in the 12th century under the emperors Manuel,
Alexius, and Andronicus Comnenus. He is celebra-
ted for his erudition as a grammarian, and is especially
knewn as a commentator on Homer and Dionysius
the geographer. It must be confessed, however, that
in the former of these commentaries he is largely
indebted to the Deipnosophislae of Athcnasus, and
Schweighaeuser holds the following strong language
relative to the extent of these obligations (Prof, ad.
Atlien. , p. xix. ): "In Eustathii in Homtrum Com-
mentariis Athcnaus noster a capite ad calcem (verts-
stmt dixcris) utrami/uc paginam facil: adeoque est
inrrediUIis et pane xnfinitus locorum Humerus, quibus
doctus iUe prasul ex uno Athcnai fonte hortulos suos
irrigavit, ul sapc etiam notissimorum nobilissimorum-
que auctorum, quorum ubivis obvia ipsa scripta sunt,
unius ejusdem Athcnai verbis produxerit testimonia;
utque, nisi de viri doctnna aliunde satis constaret,
subindc propemodum vidcri Me posset c solo Naucrat-
vii Deipnosophisla sapuis. se. " (Compare the note of
the same editor, and Fabricius, Bibl. Grac. , vol. 1,
p. 316, seqq. ) The commentary of Euslathius was
united to the edition of Homer which appeared it
Rome in 1542. 1548, 1550, in 3 vols, folio: tr. . S was
reprinted at Bale in 1560, also in 3 vols, fv'io. The
latest edition is the Leipzigoneof 1825-30,6 to':j. i:o:
for that of Politus, undertaken in 1730, with a I. aiiri
? ? version, was never finished. The three volumes jf
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FAB
rated style, inasmuch as be will have to traat of great
personages still living; "quia ad inelytos principcs
tenerandosque pervenlum est. " It does not appear
that be ever carried this plan into execution. The
tat. edition is that of Tzschucke, Lips. , 1797, 8vo. --
II. A eunuch and minister of the Emperor Arcadius,
*ho rose by base and infamous practices from the vilest
? tradition to the highest pitch of opulence and power.
He was probably a native of Asia, was made chamber-
lain to the emperor in the year 395, and, after the fall of
Rufinus, succeeded that minister in the confidence of
bis mas>? r, and rose to unlimited authority. He even
was created consul, a disgrace to Rome never before
equalled. An insult offered to the empress was the
cause of his overthrow; and he was sent into perpet-
ual exile to Cyprus. He was soon afterward, however,
Drought back on another charge; and, after being con-
demned, was beheaded A. D. 399. (Zosim. , 5, 10. --
Id. , b, 18, &c. )
EdxLnxs Pontus. Vid. Pontus Euxinus.
Ex. ishvecs, a fountain which, according to Herod-
otus, flows into the Hypanis, where the river is four
days' journey from the sea, and renders its waters bit-
ter, that before were sweet. Herodotus places this
fountain in the country of the ploughing Scythians,
and of the Alazones. It takes, he adds, the name of
the place where it springs, which, in the Scythian
tongue, is Examrneus, corresponding in Greek to icpal
Hot, or " the sacred mays. " (Herodot. , 4, 62. )
F.
Fababis, now far/a, a river of Italy, in the terri-
rry of the Sabines, called also Farfaris. ( Virg. , . En. ,
. 715. )
Fabia Gens, a numerous and powerful patrician
jioe of ancient Rome, which became subdivided into
leveral families or branches, distinguished by their re-
spective cognomina, such as Fabii Maximi, Fabii Am-
busti, Fabii Vibulani, <5cc. Pliny says that the name
of Ibis bouse arose from the circumstance of its found-
en having excelled in the culture of the bean (faba),
the early Romans having been remarkable for their at-
tachment to agricultural pursuits. (P'm. , 18,3. ) Ac-
cording to Fcslua, however, the Fabii traced their ori-
gin to Hercules (Fest. , s. r. Fabii), and their name,
therefore, is thought to have come rather from the
Etrurian term Fains <rr Fabia, which Passeri makes
equivalent to "august" or "venerable. " (Tab. Eu-
cubin, vii , tin. 22. ) But this etymology is less prob-
able, since the Fabii are B<<-:d, by the ordinary author-
ities, to have been of Sab. nc origin, and to have set-
tled on the Quirinal from the time of the earliest Ro-
man kings. After the expulsion of the Tarquinii, the
Fabian, as one of the older houses, exercised consider-
able influence in the senate. Casso Fabius, being
quaestor with L. Valerius, impeached Spurius Cassius,
B C. 486. A. U. C. 268, and had him evecuted. It has
been noted as a remarkable fact, that, for seven consec-
utive years from that time, one of the two annual con-
sulships was filled by three brothers Fabii in rotation.
Niebuhr has particularly investigated this oeriod of
Roman history, and speculated on the causes of this
long retention of office by the Fabii, as connected with
the straggle then pending between the patricians and
plebeians, and the attempt of the former to monopolize
'be elections. (Rom. Hist, vol. 2, p. 174, scqq. )
Oae of the three brothers, Q.
Fabius Vibulanus, fell in
battle against the Veicntes in the year of Rome 274.
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FAB
pofunity of availing himself of any error or neglect on
the part of the Carthaginians. This mode of warfare,
which was new to the Romans, acquired for Fabius
the name of Cunetator or "delayer," and was cen-
sured by the yong, the rash, and the ignorant; but
* probably was the means of saving Koine from ruin.
Uinucius, who shared with Fabius the command of the
army, having imprudently engaged Hannibal, was
saved from total destruction by the timely assistance
tf tha dictator. In the following year, however,
A U. C. 636, Fabius being recalled to Rome, the com-
? and of the army was intrusted to the consul Tcren-
tus Varro, who rushed imprudently to battle, and the
defeat at Carina made manifest the wisdom of the dic-
tator's previous caution. Fabius was chosen consul
the next year, and was again employed in keeping
Hannibal in check. In A. U. C. 543, being consul for
the fifth time, he retook Tarentum by stratagem, after
which he narrowly escaped being caught himself in a
snare by Hannibal near Metapontum. (Lit. , 27, 15,
seq. ) When, some years after, the question was dis-
cussed in the senate, of sending Scipio with an army
into Africa, Fabius opposed it, saying that Italy ought
first to be rid of Hannibal. Fabius died some time
after at a very advanced age. His son, called likewise
Quintus Fabius Maximus, who had also been consul,
died before him. His grandson Quintus Fabius Max-
imus Servilianus, being proconsul, fought against Vir-
iathus in Spain, and concluded with him an honour-
able peace. (Livy, Epit? 54. ) He was afterward
consul repeatedly, and also censor. He wrote An-
nals, which are quoted by Macrobius. (Sal. , 1, 16. )
His brother by adoption, Quintus Fabius Maximus
yErmlianus, the son of Paulus jEmilius (Lie. , 45,41),
was consul A. U. C. 609, and was the father of Fabius,
called Allobrogicus, who subdued not only the Allo-
broges, but also the people of southern Gaul, which he
reduced into a Roman province, called from that time
Provincia. Quintus Fabius Maximus, a grandson of
fabius Maximus Servilianus, served in Spain under
J jIius Caesar, and was made consul A. U. C. 709. Two
of his sons or nephews were consuls in succes-
sion under Augustus. There was also a Fabius con-
sul under Tiberius. Panvinius and othera have reck-
oned that, during a period of about five centuries, from
the time of the first Fabius who is mentioned as con-
sul, to the reign of Tiberius, forty-eight consulships,
seven dictatorships, eight censorships, seven augur-
ahips, besides the offices of master of the horse and
military tribune with consular power, were filled by
individuals of the Fabian house. It could also boast
of thirteen tiiumphs and two ovations. (Augustimts
dt Familiis Komanorum. --Encyct. Us. Knotcl. , vol.
10, p. 151. )--IV. A loquacious personage alluded to
by Horaoe (Sal. , 1, 1, 14). --V. Pictor, the first Ro-
man who wrole an historical account of his country.
This historian, called by Livy scriptorum nntiquissi-
nuts, appears to have been wretchedly qualified for the
labour he had undertaken, either in point of judgment,
fidelity, or research; and to his carelessness and inac-
curacy, more than even to the loss of monuments, may
be attributed the painful uncertainty which to this dav
bangs over the early ages of Roman history. Fabius
lived in the time of the second Punic war. The fam-
ily feceived it* cognomen from Caius Fabius. who, hav-
ing resided in Etruria, and there acquired some knowl-
edge -of the fine arte, painted with figures the temple
? ? ? f Saius, in the year of the city 450. The historian
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FALERNUS AQER.
FiiscL^, now Fiesoli, a town of Italy, in Etruria,
oulheast of Pistoria, whence it is said the augurs
passed to Rome. Catiline made it a place of arms,
ihe Goths, when they entered Italy under the consu-
late ofStdicboand Aurelian, AD. 400, were defeated
in its vicinity. (Cir. . pro Mur. , 24. --SU. Ltd. , 8,478.
Sil. usi, Cat. , 27. )
Fajctdia Lki, proposed by the tribune Falcidius,
A. U. C. 713, enacted that the testator ahould leave at
hut the fourth part of his fortune to tho person whom
za named his heir. (Dio Cass. , 48, 33. )
Faleru, a town of Picenum, southwest of Firmum,
now Faliermi (Pirn. , 3, 13. )
Falerii (or ium), a city of Etruria, southwest of
Fescennium, and the capital of the ancient Falisci,
so well known from their connexion with the early his-
tory of Rome. Much uncertainty seems to have ex-
isted respecting the ancient site of this place; but it
is now well ascertained that it occupied the posi-
tion of the present Chita Castellana. Cluver, and
after him Holstcnius (ad Steph. Byz. , p. 67), have
satisfactorily established this point. The doubt seems
to have originated in the notion that there was a city
named Faliscum, as welt as Falerii. (Strabo, 226. )
The situation of the ancient Falerii is made to agree
with that of Civil a Castellana, from the language of
Plutarch (Vit. Camill. ) and Zonaras (Ann. , 2), who
both describe it as placed on a lofty summit; and the
latter states that the old town was destroyed, and a
new one built at the foot of the hill. This fact is con-
tinned by the identity of the new Falerii with the
church of St. Maria Falari, on the track of the Fla-
ramian way, where? the Itineraries place that city.
We learn, too, from Pliny (3, 5), that Falerii became
a colony under the name of Falisca, a circumstance
which sufficiently reconciles the apparent contradic-
tion in the accounts of this city. (Front. , de Col. , p.
130. ) Falerii, according to Dionysius of Halicarnas-
sos (1, 21), belonged at first to the Siculi; but these
were succeeded by the Pelasgi, to whom the Greek
form of its name is doubtless to be ascribed, as well
as the temple and riles of the Argive Juno, and other
indications of a Grecian origin which were observed
by that historian, and with which Ovid, who had mar-
ried a lady of this city, seems also to have been struck,
though he has followed the less authentic tradition,
which ascribed the foundation of Falerii to Halesus,
son of Agamemnon. (Am. , 3, 13. -- Fast. , 4, 73. )
The early wars of the Falisci with Rome are chiefly
detailed in the fifth book of Livy, where the celebra-
ted story of Camillus and the schoolmaster of Falerii
occurs. When the Roman commander was besie-
ging this place, the schoolmaster of the city (since the
higher classes of Falerii had a public one for the com-
mon education of their children) committed a most
disgraceful and treacherous act. Having led his schol-
ars forth, day after day, under pretence of taking ex-
ercise, and each time farther from the city walls, he
at last suddenly brought them within reach of the Ro-
nnn outposts, and surrendered them all to Camillus.
Indignant at the baseness of the deed, the Roman gen-
eral ordered his lictors to strip the delinquent, tie his
bands behind him, and supply the boys with rods and
scourges to punish the traitor, and whip him into the
city. This generous act on the part of Camillus pro-
duced so strong an impression on the minds of the in-
habitants, that they immediately sent ambassadors to
? ? treat of a surrender (Lis. 5,27. --Compare Vol. Max. ,
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FAtI
were usual'v mixed with certain quantities of pitch,
aromatic hens, sea-water, &c, which must have com-
municated to them a taste that we, at least, should
consider very unpalatable. Among the ancient, and
especially the Greek wines, it was no uncommon
thing for an age of more than 20 years to leave no-
thing in the vessel but a thick and bitter mixture, ari-
sing, no doubt, from the substances with which the
wine had been medicated. We have an exception,
however, to this, in the wine made in Italy during the
consulship of Opimius, A. U. C. 633, which was to be
met with in the time of Pliny, nearly 200 years after.
This may have been owmg to the peculiar qualities of
that vintage, since we are informed that, in conse-
quence of the great warmth of the summer in that
year, all the productions of the earth attained an ex-
traordinary legrcc of perfection. Vid. Caecubus Ager.
{Henderson's History of ancient and modern Wines, p.
81, seqq. )
Falibci, a people of Etruria. (Vid. Falerii. )
Faliscus Gratius. Vid. Gratius.
Fannia Lex, de Sumptilms, enacted A. U. C. 588.
It limited the expenses of one day, at festivals, to 100
isses, whence the law is called by Lucilius Centussis;
on ten other days every month to 30, and on all other
days to 10 asses: alao, that no other fowl should be
served up except one hen, and that not fattened for the
purpose. (Aid. Gell. , 2, 24. --Maerob. , Sat. , 2, 13. )
Fannius, an inferior poot, ridiculed by Horace
[Sat. . 1, 4, 21). It seems the legacy-hunters of the
day carried his writings and bust to the library of the
Palat'iK Apollo, a compliment only paid to produc-
tions of merit. The satirist remarks, that this was
unasked for on the part of Fannius (ultra delatis cap-
sis ct imagine); an expression of double import, since
ultro may also contain a sly allusion to the absence of
all mental exertion on the part of the poet. (Schol. et
Heindorf, ad Horat. , I. c. )
Fanusj Vacun^e, a temple of Vicuna, in the vicin-
ty of Horace's Sabine villa. (Hor. , Ep. , 1, 10, 49. )
It is supposed to have stood on the summit of Rocca
Giovane.
Farfaris. Vid. Fabaris.
Fauna, a goddess of the Latins. According to the
old Roman legends, by which all the Italian deities
were originally mortals, she was the daughter of Picus,
and the sister and wife of Faunus. One account makes
her to have never left her bower, or let herself be seen
of men; and to have been deified for this reason, be-
coming identical with the Bona Dea, and no man be-
ing allowed to enter her temple. (Maerob. , 1, 12. )
According to another tradition, she was not only re-
markable for her modesty, but also for her extensive
and varied knowledge. Having, however, on one oc-
casion, made free with the contents of a jar of wine,
she was beaten to death by her husband with myrtle-
twigs! Repenting, however, soon after of the deed, he
bestowed on her divine honours. Hence, in the cele-
bration of her sacred rites, myrtle boughs were care-
fully excluded; nor was any wine allowed to be
brought, under that name, into her temple; but it was
called "honey," and the vessel containing it also was
termed mellarium (scil. vas), i. e. , "a honey-jar. "
(Consult Maerob. , Sat. , 1, 12, and Spangenbcrg, de
Vet. hat. Relig. Domest. ,p. 64, where other versions
of the story are given. ) Fauna is said to have given
oracles from her temple after death, which circum-
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