) Now it murderers of Galba, this
Fabullus
might be sup-
is very probable that C.
is very probable that C.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
with Epist.
11.
) Fabianus
the patriotic courage and tragic fate of the 306 I was the author of a work entitled (Rerum ? ] Civi-
Fabii in the battle on the Cremera, B. C. 477. lium; and his philosophical writings exceeded
(VIBULANUS, K. Fabius, No. 3. ) But the Fabii Cicero's in number. (Senec. Epist. 100. ) He had
were not distinguished as warriors alone : several also paid great attention to physical science, and
members of the gens act an important part also in is called by Pliny (H. N. xxxvi. 15, s. 24) rerum
the history of Roman literature and of the arts. naturae peritissimus. From Seneca (Natur. Quaest.
The name occurs as late as the second century after iii. 27), he appears to have written on Physics ;
the Christian aera The family-names of this gens and his works entitled De Animalibus and Causa-
under the republic are :--AMBUSTUS, BUTEO, rum Naturalium Libri are frequently referred to by
Dorso, LABEO, LICINUS, MAXIMUS (with the Pliny (H. N. generally in his Elenchos or sum-
agnomens Aemilianus, Allobrogicus, Eburnus, Gur- mary of materials, i. ii
. vii. ix. xi. xii. xiii. xiv.
ges, Rullianus, Servilianus, Verrucosus), Pictor, xv. xvii. xxiii. xxviii. xxxvi. , and specially, but
and VIBULANUS. The other cognomens, which without mention of the particular work of Fa-
do not belong to the gens, are given below. (L. S. ] bianus, ii. 47. $ 121, ii. 102. & 223, ix. 8. & 25,
The only cognomens that occur on coins are xii. 4. & 20, xv. 1. $ 4, xxiii. 11. $ 62, xxviii. 5.
Hispaniensis (see Vol. I. p. 180, a. ), Labeo, Mar- $ 54).
(W. B. D. ]
imus, and Pictor. The two coins represented below FÁBIA'NUS, VALERIUS, a Roman of rank
have no cognomen upon them, and it is doubtful sufficient to aspire to the honours of the state, was
to whom they are to be referred. The former has convicted before the senate in a, v. 62, of conspiring
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FABRICIUS.
FACUNDUS.
with Vincius Rufinus, Antonius Primus, and bridge of stone, which connected the city with the
others, to impose on his aged and wealthy relative, island in the Tiber, and which was called, after
Domitius Balbus, a forged will. Fabianus was him, pons Fabricius. The time at which the
degraded from the senatorian order by the Lex | bridge was built is expressly mentioned by Dion
Cornelia Testamentaria or De Falsis. (Tac. Ann. Cassius (xxxvii. 45), and the name of its anthor is
xiv. 40 ; comp. Instit. iv. 18. $ 7 ; Paulus, Recept. still seen on the remnants of the bridge, which now
Sententiarum, v. tit. 25. )
(W. B. D. ) bears the name of ponte quattro capi On one of
FABI'LIUS, or FÁBILLUS, a professor of the arches we read the inscription : "L. FABRICIUS,
literature in the third century A. D. , who instructed C. F. CUR. VIAR. PACIUNDUM COERAVIT IDEMQUE
the younger Maximinus in the Greek language, PROBAVIT ;" and on another arch there is the follow-
and was the author of several Greek epigranis, ing addition: “Q. LEPIDUS, M. F. , M. LoLliu, M.
which were mostly inscriptive lines for the statues F. , ex S. C. PROBAVERUNT," which probably refers
and portraits of his youthful pupil. (Capitolin. to a restoration of the bridge by Q. Lepidus and
Marimin. Jun. 1. )
(W. B. D. ) M. Lollius. The scholiast on Horace (Sut. ii. 3,
FABIUS DOSSENNUS. (Dossensus. ] 36) calls the Fabricius who built that bridge a
FA'BIUS FABULLUS. [FABULLUS. ] consul, but this is obviously a mistake. (Becker,
FA'BIUS HADRIA'NUS. (HADRIANUS. ] Handbuch d. Röm. Alterthümer, vol. i. p. 699. )
FA'BIUS LABEO. (LABEO. ]
There is also a coin bearing the name of L. Fabri-
FA'BIUS MELA. (MELA. ]
cius. (Eckhel, Doctr. Num. vol. v. p. 210. )
FA'BIUS PLANCI'ADES FULGE'NTIUS. 3. Q. FABRICIUS was tribune of the people in
[FULGENTIUS. )
B. C. 57, and well disposed towards Cicero, who
FABIUS PRISCUS. (Priscus. )
was then living in exile. He brought before the
FABIUS RUʻSTICUS. (Rusticus. ) people a motion that Cicero should be recalled, as
FA'BIUS SABI'NUS. (SABINUS. )
early as the month of January of that year. But
FA'BIUS SANGA. [SANG A. )
the attempt was frustrated by P. Clodius by armed
FA'BIUS, VERGILIA'NUS. (VERGI- force. (Cic. ad Qi. Frat. i. 4, post Red. in Sen.
LIANUS. )
8, pro Sext. 35, &c. , pro Milon, 14. ) In the
FABRICIA GENS, seems to have belonged Monumentum Ancyranum and in Dion Cassius
originally to the Hernican town of Aletrium, where (xlviii. 35), he is mentioned as consul suffectus of
Fabricii occur as late as the time of Cicero (pro the year B. c. 36.
(L. S. )
Cluent. 16, &c. ) The first Fabricius who occurs in FABULLUS, painter. (AMULIUS. )
history is the celebrated C. Fabricius Luscinus, FABULLUS, FABIUS, one of the several
who distinguished himself in the war against persons to whom the murder of Galba, in A. D. 69,
Pyrrhus, and who was probably the first of the was attributed. He carried the bleeding head of
Fabricii who quitted his native place and settled the emperor, which, from its extreme baldness,
at Rome. We know that in B. C. 306, shortly be- was difficult to hold, in the lappet of his sagum,
fore the war with Pyrrhus, most of the Hernican until, compelled by his comrades to expose it to
towns revolted against Rome, but were subdued public view, he fixed it on a spear and brandished
and compelled to accept the Roman franchise with it, says Plutarch, as a bacchanal her thyrsus, in his
out the suffrage : three towns, Aletrium, Feren- progress from the forum to the praetorian camp
tinum, and Verulae, which had remained faithful (Plut. Galb. 27; comp. Sueton. Galb. 20). But for
to Rome, were allowed to retain their former con- the joint statement of Plutarch (l. c. ) and Tacitus
stitution ; that is, they remained to Rome in the (Hist. i. 44), that Vitellius put to death all the
relation of isopolity. (Liv. ix. 42, &c.
) Now it murderers of Galba, this Fabullus might be sup-
is very probable that C. Fabricius Luscinus either posed the same with Fabius Fabullus, legatus of
at that time or soon after left Aletrium and settled the fifth legion, whom the soldiers of Vitellius,
at Rome, where, like other settlers from isopolite A. D. 69, chose as one of their leaders in the mutiny
towns, he soon rose to high hunours. Besides this against Alienus Caecina (CAECINA, No. 9], when
Fabricius, no members of his family appear to have he prematurely declared for Vespasian. (Tacit.
risen to any eminence at Rome ; and we must Hist. iii. 14. )
(W. B. D. )
conclude that they were either men of inferior FACUNDUS, styled “ Episcopus Hermia.
talent, or, what is more probable, that being nensis," from the see which he held in the pro-
strangers, they laboured under great disadvantages, vince of Byzacium, in Africa Propria lived about
and that the jealousy of the illustrious Roman the middle of the sixth century. When Justinian
families, plebeian as well as patrician, kept them (A. D. 544) published an edict condemning, ish the
down, and prevented their maintaining the posi- Epistle of Ibas, bishop of Edessa ; 2d, the doctrine
tion which their sire had gained. Luscinus is of Theodore, bishop of Mopsuestia ; and 3d, cer-
the only cognomen of the Fabricii that we meet tain writings of Theodoren, bishop of Cyrus or
with under the republic: in the time of the em- Cyrrus ; and anathematising all who approved of
pire we find a Fabricius with the cognomen Ver them, his edict was resisted by many, as impugning
ENTO. There are a few without a cognomen. [L. S. ] the judgment of the general council of Chalcedon
FABRICIUS. 1. C. and L. FABRICIUS (held A. D. 451), at which the prelates whose sen-
belonged to the municipium of Aletrium, and were timents or writings were obnoxious were not only
twins. According to Cicero (pro Cluent. 16, &c. ), not condemned, but two of them, Ibas and Theo-
they were both men of bad character ; and C. Fa- dore, restored to their sees, from which they had
bricius, in particular, was charged with having been expelled. Facundus was one of those who
allowed himself to be made use of as a tool of Op- rejected the Emperor's edict ; and was requested by
pianicus, about B. C. 67, to destroy A. Cluentius. bis brethren (apparently the other bishops of
(A. CLUENTIUS, No. 2. )
Africa) to prepare a defence of the Council on the
2. L. Fabricius, C. F. , perhaps a son of No. 1, three points (currently termed by ecclesiastical
was curator viarum in B. C. 62, and built a new writers the “tria capitula ") on which its judgment
a
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was impugned. He was at Constantinople, engaged younger Faustina. (Gruter, p. cclii. 8 ; Murator,
in this work, when the pope, Vigilius (A. D. 547), p. 242. 3, p. 590. 4. )
arrived, and directed him and all the other bishops 3. JUNA FADILLA, a descendant of M. Anto
who were there, about seventy in number, to give ninus or M. Aurelius, betrothed to Maximus
their opinion on the “ tria capitula” in writing in Caesar. (Capitolin. Marimin. jun. l. ) (W. R. )
seven days. The answer of Facundus consisted FADIUS, the name of a family of the munici-
of extracts from his unfinished work ; but as, from pium of Arpinum. Some of the members of it
the haste and excitement under which it was pre-settled at Rome, while others remained in their
pared, and the inaccuracy of some of its quotations, native place. The Fadii appear in history about
it did not satisfy its author, he afterwards finished the time of Cicero, but none of them rose to any
and published his larger work, as being a more higher office than the tribuneship. The only cog-
moderate and better arranged defence of the coun- nomens that occur in the family, are GALLUS and
cil. Vigilius having been induced to approve of RUFUS. The following have no surnames :-
the condemnation of Ibas, Theodore, and Theodo- 1. C. or Q. Fabius, for in one of the two pas-
ret, though with a reservation of the authority of sages in which he is mentioned, he is called Caius,
the council of Chalcedon, Facundus, with the bishops and in the other Quintus. He was a libertinus,
of Africa and of some other provinces, refused to and seems to have possessed considerable wealth,
have communion with him and with those who for his daughter, who was married to M. Antonius,
joined in the condemnation ; and being persecuted is called a rich woman. (Cic. Philipp. ii. 2, ad Atl.
for this, he was obliged to conceal himself. During xvi. 11. )
this concealment, at the request of some persons 2. L. Fadius, was aedile in his native place of
whom he does not name, he wrote his reply to Arpinum, in B. C. 44. (Cic. ad Att. xv. 15, 17,
Mocian, a scholasticus or pleader, who had written 20. )
against the decision of the council of Chalcedon. 3. Sex. Fadius, a disciple of the physician
Nothing further is known of Facundus. Two Nicon, but otherwise unknown (Cic. ad Fam.
of his writings, viz. Pro Defensione Trium Capitu- vii. 20. )
(L. S. )
lorum Libri XII. , and Contra Mucianum Liber, FADUS, CUS'PIUS, a Roman eques of the
were published with notes by Sirmond (8vo. time of the Emperor Claudius. After the death of
Paris. 1629). These works, with Sirmond's King Agrippa, in A. D. 44, he was appointed by
notes, are reprinted in the edition of the Claudius procurator of Judaea. During his admi-
works of Optatus, by Philippus Priorius, and in nistration peace was restored in the country, and
the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. x. ed. Lyon, A. D. the only disturbance was created by one Teudas,
1677, and vol. xi. ed. Venice, by Gallandius, who came forward with the claim of being a pro-
A. D. 1765. Another work of Facundus, entitled phet. But he and his followers were put to death
Epistola Fidei Catholicae in Defensione Trium Capi- by the command of Cuspius Fadus. He was suc-
tulorum, was first published in the Spicilegium of ceeded in the administration of Judaea by Tiberius
D'Achery (vol. iii. p. 106 of the first edition, or Alexander. (Joseph. Ant. xix. 9, xx. 5. § 1, Bell.
vol. ii. p. 307. ed. of 1723), chiefly with the view Jud. ii. 11. $5; Tac. Hist. v. 9 ; Zonar. xii. 11;
of showing that Facundus continued out of com- Euseb. Hist. Eccl. ii. 11. )
(LS. )
munion with the Pope and the Catholic Church, and FALACER, or, more fully, divus pater Falacer,
so of weakening his authority: for the Protestants is mentioned by Varro (de L. L. v. 84, vii. 45) as
had cited a passage from his Defensio Trium Capi- an ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, whom
tulorum against the doctrine of the Real Presence. Hartung (Die Rel. d. Röm. ii. p. 9) is inclined to
This letter is reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum consider to be the same as Jupiter, since faiandum,
of Gallandius. Cassiodorus (Erpos. in Psalm according to Festas, was the Etruscan name for
cxxxvïi. sub fin. ) speaks of two books of Fa- "heaven. ”
(L. S. ]
cundus De duubus Naturis Domini Christi. By FALA'NIUS, a Roman eques, one of the first
some scholars he is thought to mean the two victims of the public accusers in the reign of Tibe
first books of the Defensio; but Fabricius thinks rius. He was charged, a. D. 15, with profaning
that he speaks of a separate work of Facundus now the worship of Augustus Caesar, first by admitting
lost. (Facundus, works as above ; Victor Tunnu- a player of bad repute to the rites, and secondly by
nensis, Chronicon ; Isidor. Hisp. De Scrip. Eccles. selling with his garden a statue of the deceased
c. 19. ; Baronius, Annal. ad Ann. 546, 547, emperor. Tiberius acquitted Falanius, remarking
and Pagius, Critic. in Baron. ; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. that the gods were quite able to take care of their
. p.
the patriotic courage and tragic fate of the 306 I was the author of a work entitled (Rerum ? ] Civi-
Fabii in the battle on the Cremera, B. C. 477. lium; and his philosophical writings exceeded
(VIBULANUS, K. Fabius, No. 3. ) But the Fabii Cicero's in number. (Senec. Epist. 100. ) He had
were not distinguished as warriors alone : several also paid great attention to physical science, and
members of the gens act an important part also in is called by Pliny (H. N. xxxvi. 15, s. 24) rerum
the history of Roman literature and of the arts. naturae peritissimus. From Seneca (Natur. Quaest.
The name occurs as late as the second century after iii. 27), he appears to have written on Physics ;
the Christian aera The family-names of this gens and his works entitled De Animalibus and Causa-
under the republic are :--AMBUSTUS, BUTEO, rum Naturalium Libri are frequently referred to by
Dorso, LABEO, LICINUS, MAXIMUS (with the Pliny (H. N. generally in his Elenchos or sum-
agnomens Aemilianus, Allobrogicus, Eburnus, Gur- mary of materials, i. ii
. vii. ix. xi. xii. xiii. xiv.
ges, Rullianus, Servilianus, Verrucosus), Pictor, xv. xvii. xxiii. xxviii. xxxvi. , and specially, but
and VIBULANUS. The other cognomens, which without mention of the particular work of Fa-
do not belong to the gens, are given below. (L. S. ] bianus, ii. 47. $ 121, ii. 102. & 223, ix. 8. & 25,
The only cognomens that occur on coins are xii. 4. & 20, xv. 1. $ 4, xxiii. 11. $ 62, xxviii. 5.
Hispaniensis (see Vol. I. p. 180, a. ), Labeo, Mar- $ 54).
(W. B. D. ]
imus, and Pictor. The two coins represented below FÁBIA'NUS, VALERIUS, a Roman of rank
have no cognomen upon them, and it is doubtful sufficient to aspire to the honours of the state, was
to whom they are to be referred. The former has convicted before the senate in a, v. 62, of conspiring
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FABRICIUS.
FACUNDUS.
with Vincius Rufinus, Antonius Primus, and bridge of stone, which connected the city with the
others, to impose on his aged and wealthy relative, island in the Tiber, and which was called, after
Domitius Balbus, a forged will. Fabianus was him, pons Fabricius. The time at which the
degraded from the senatorian order by the Lex | bridge was built is expressly mentioned by Dion
Cornelia Testamentaria or De Falsis. (Tac. Ann. Cassius (xxxvii. 45), and the name of its anthor is
xiv. 40 ; comp. Instit. iv. 18. $ 7 ; Paulus, Recept. still seen on the remnants of the bridge, which now
Sententiarum, v. tit. 25. )
(W. B. D. ) bears the name of ponte quattro capi On one of
FABI'LIUS, or FÁBILLUS, a professor of the arches we read the inscription : "L. FABRICIUS,
literature in the third century A. D. , who instructed C. F. CUR. VIAR. PACIUNDUM COERAVIT IDEMQUE
the younger Maximinus in the Greek language, PROBAVIT ;" and on another arch there is the follow-
and was the author of several Greek epigranis, ing addition: “Q. LEPIDUS, M. F. , M. LoLliu, M.
which were mostly inscriptive lines for the statues F. , ex S. C. PROBAVERUNT," which probably refers
and portraits of his youthful pupil. (Capitolin. to a restoration of the bridge by Q. Lepidus and
Marimin. Jun. 1. )
(W. B. D. ) M. Lollius. The scholiast on Horace (Sut. ii. 3,
FABIUS DOSSENNUS. (Dossensus. ] 36) calls the Fabricius who built that bridge a
FA'BIUS FABULLUS. [FABULLUS. ] consul, but this is obviously a mistake. (Becker,
FA'BIUS HADRIA'NUS. (HADRIANUS. ] Handbuch d. Röm. Alterthümer, vol. i. p. 699. )
FA'BIUS LABEO. (LABEO. ]
There is also a coin bearing the name of L. Fabri-
FA'BIUS MELA. (MELA. ]
cius. (Eckhel, Doctr. Num. vol. v. p. 210. )
FA'BIUS PLANCI'ADES FULGE'NTIUS. 3. Q. FABRICIUS was tribune of the people in
[FULGENTIUS. )
B. C. 57, and well disposed towards Cicero, who
FABIUS PRISCUS. (Priscus. )
was then living in exile. He brought before the
FABIUS RUʻSTICUS. (Rusticus. ) people a motion that Cicero should be recalled, as
FA'BIUS SABI'NUS. (SABINUS. )
early as the month of January of that year. But
FA'BIUS SANGA. [SANG A. )
the attempt was frustrated by P. Clodius by armed
FA'BIUS, VERGILIA'NUS. (VERGI- force. (Cic. ad Qi. Frat. i. 4, post Red. in Sen.
LIANUS. )
8, pro Sext. 35, &c. , pro Milon, 14. ) In the
FABRICIA GENS, seems to have belonged Monumentum Ancyranum and in Dion Cassius
originally to the Hernican town of Aletrium, where (xlviii. 35), he is mentioned as consul suffectus of
Fabricii occur as late as the time of Cicero (pro the year B. c. 36.
(L. S. )
Cluent. 16, &c. ) The first Fabricius who occurs in FABULLUS, painter. (AMULIUS. )
history is the celebrated C. Fabricius Luscinus, FABULLUS, FABIUS, one of the several
who distinguished himself in the war against persons to whom the murder of Galba, in A. D. 69,
Pyrrhus, and who was probably the first of the was attributed. He carried the bleeding head of
Fabricii who quitted his native place and settled the emperor, which, from its extreme baldness,
at Rome. We know that in B. C. 306, shortly be- was difficult to hold, in the lappet of his sagum,
fore the war with Pyrrhus, most of the Hernican until, compelled by his comrades to expose it to
towns revolted against Rome, but were subdued public view, he fixed it on a spear and brandished
and compelled to accept the Roman franchise with it, says Plutarch, as a bacchanal her thyrsus, in his
out the suffrage : three towns, Aletrium, Feren- progress from the forum to the praetorian camp
tinum, and Verulae, which had remained faithful (Plut. Galb. 27; comp. Sueton. Galb. 20). But for
to Rome, were allowed to retain their former con- the joint statement of Plutarch (l. c. ) and Tacitus
stitution ; that is, they remained to Rome in the (Hist. i. 44), that Vitellius put to death all the
relation of isopolity. (Liv. ix. 42, &c.
) Now it murderers of Galba, this Fabullus might be sup-
is very probable that C. Fabricius Luscinus either posed the same with Fabius Fabullus, legatus of
at that time or soon after left Aletrium and settled the fifth legion, whom the soldiers of Vitellius,
at Rome, where, like other settlers from isopolite A. D. 69, chose as one of their leaders in the mutiny
towns, he soon rose to high hunours. Besides this against Alienus Caecina (CAECINA, No. 9], when
Fabricius, no members of his family appear to have he prematurely declared for Vespasian. (Tacit.
risen to any eminence at Rome ; and we must Hist. iii. 14. )
(W. B. D. )
conclude that they were either men of inferior FACUNDUS, styled “ Episcopus Hermia.
talent, or, what is more probable, that being nensis," from the see which he held in the pro-
strangers, they laboured under great disadvantages, vince of Byzacium, in Africa Propria lived about
and that the jealousy of the illustrious Roman the middle of the sixth century. When Justinian
families, plebeian as well as patrician, kept them (A. D. 544) published an edict condemning, ish the
down, and prevented their maintaining the posi- Epistle of Ibas, bishop of Edessa ; 2d, the doctrine
tion which their sire had gained. Luscinus is of Theodore, bishop of Mopsuestia ; and 3d, cer-
the only cognomen of the Fabricii that we meet tain writings of Theodoren, bishop of Cyrus or
with under the republic: in the time of the em- Cyrrus ; and anathematising all who approved of
pire we find a Fabricius with the cognomen Ver them, his edict was resisted by many, as impugning
ENTO. There are a few without a cognomen. [L. S. ] the judgment of the general council of Chalcedon
FABRICIUS. 1. C. and L. FABRICIUS (held A. D. 451), at which the prelates whose sen-
belonged to the municipium of Aletrium, and were timents or writings were obnoxious were not only
twins. According to Cicero (pro Cluent. 16, &c. ), not condemned, but two of them, Ibas and Theo-
they were both men of bad character ; and C. Fa- dore, restored to their sees, from which they had
bricius, in particular, was charged with having been expelled. Facundus was one of those who
allowed himself to be made use of as a tool of Op- rejected the Emperor's edict ; and was requested by
pianicus, about B. C. 67, to destroy A. Cluentius. bis brethren (apparently the other bishops of
(A. CLUENTIUS, No. 2. )
Africa) to prepare a defence of the Council on the
2. L. Fabricius, C. F. , perhaps a son of No. 1, three points (currently termed by ecclesiastical
was curator viarum in B. C. 62, and built a new writers the “tria capitula ") on which its judgment
a
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FADILLA.
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se people i
Cicer, ob
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= recalled, as
year. do:
Bics by ans
Reds
Dion Casas
al safectas
(LS)
US)
of the serez
12 in 4. Les
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FALCIDIUS.
133
was impugned. He was at Constantinople, engaged younger Faustina. (Gruter, p. cclii. 8 ; Murator,
in this work, when the pope, Vigilius (A. D. 547), p. 242. 3, p. 590. 4. )
arrived, and directed him and all the other bishops 3. JUNA FADILLA, a descendant of M. Anto
who were there, about seventy in number, to give ninus or M. Aurelius, betrothed to Maximus
their opinion on the “ tria capitula” in writing in Caesar. (Capitolin. Marimin. jun. l. ) (W. R. )
seven days. The answer of Facundus consisted FADIUS, the name of a family of the munici-
of extracts from his unfinished work ; but as, from pium of Arpinum. Some of the members of it
the haste and excitement under which it was pre-settled at Rome, while others remained in their
pared, and the inaccuracy of some of its quotations, native place. The Fadii appear in history about
it did not satisfy its author, he afterwards finished the time of Cicero, but none of them rose to any
and published his larger work, as being a more higher office than the tribuneship. The only cog-
moderate and better arranged defence of the coun- nomens that occur in the family, are GALLUS and
cil. Vigilius having been induced to approve of RUFUS. The following have no surnames :-
the condemnation of Ibas, Theodore, and Theodo- 1. C. or Q. Fabius, for in one of the two pas-
ret, though with a reservation of the authority of sages in which he is mentioned, he is called Caius,
the council of Chalcedon, Facundus, with the bishops and in the other Quintus. He was a libertinus,
of Africa and of some other provinces, refused to and seems to have possessed considerable wealth,
have communion with him and with those who for his daughter, who was married to M. Antonius,
joined in the condemnation ; and being persecuted is called a rich woman. (Cic. Philipp. ii. 2, ad Atl.
for this, he was obliged to conceal himself. During xvi. 11. )
this concealment, at the request of some persons 2. L. Fadius, was aedile in his native place of
whom he does not name, he wrote his reply to Arpinum, in B. C. 44. (Cic. ad Att. xv. 15, 17,
Mocian, a scholasticus or pleader, who had written 20. )
against the decision of the council of Chalcedon. 3. Sex. Fadius, a disciple of the physician
Nothing further is known of Facundus. Two Nicon, but otherwise unknown (Cic. ad Fam.
of his writings, viz. Pro Defensione Trium Capitu- vii. 20. )
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lorum Libri XII. , and Contra Mucianum Liber, FADUS, CUS'PIUS, a Roman eques of the
were published with notes by Sirmond (8vo. time of the Emperor Claudius. After the death of
Paris. 1629). These works, with Sirmond's King Agrippa, in A. D. 44, he was appointed by
notes, are reprinted in the edition of the Claudius procurator of Judaea. During his admi-
works of Optatus, by Philippus Priorius, and in nistration peace was restored in the country, and
the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. x. ed. Lyon, A. D. the only disturbance was created by one Teudas,
1677, and vol. xi. ed. Venice, by Gallandius, who came forward with the claim of being a pro-
A. D. 1765. Another work of Facundus, entitled phet. But he and his followers were put to death
Epistola Fidei Catholicae in Defensione Trium Capi- by the command of Cuspius Fadus. He was suc-
tulorum, was first published in the Spicilegium of ceeded in the administration of Judaea by Tiberius
D'Achery (vol. iii. p. 106 of the first edition, or Alexander. (Joseph. Ant. xix. 9, xx. 5. § 1, Bell.
vol. ii. p. 307. ed. of 1723), chiefly with the view Jud. ii. 11. $5; Tac. Hist. v. 9 ; Zonar. xii. 11;
of showing that Facundus continued out of com- Euseb. Hist. Eccl. ii. 11. )
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munion with the Pope and the Catholic Church, and FALACER, or, more fully, divus pater Falacer,
so of weakening his authority: for the Protestants is mentioned by Varro (de L. L. v. 84, vii. 45) as
had cited a passage from his Defensio Trium Capi- an ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, whom
tulorum against the doctrine of the Real Presence. Hartung (Die Rel. d. Röm. ii. p. 9) is inclined to
This letter is reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patrum consider to be the same as Jupiter, since faiandum,
of Gallandius. Cassiodorus (Erpos. in Psalm according to Festas, was the Etruscan name for
cxxxvïi. sub fin. ) speaks of two books of Fa- "heaven. ”
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cundus De duubus Naturis Domini Christi. By FALA'NIUS, a Roman eques, one of the first
some scholars he is thought to mean the two victims of the public accusers in the reign of Tibe
first books of the Defensio; but Fabricius thinks rius. He was charged, a. D. 15, with profaning
that he speaks of a separate work of Facundus now the worship of Augustus Caesar, first by admitting
lost. (Facundus, works as above ; Victor Tunnu- a player of bad repute to the rites, and secondly by
nensis, Chronicon ; Isidor. Hisp. De Scrip. Eccles. selling with his garden a statue of the deceased
c. 19. ; Baronius, Annal. ad Ann. 546, 547, emperor. Tiberius acquitted Falanius, remarking
and Pagius, Critic. in Baron. ; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. that the gods were quite able to take care of their
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