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8. 7, pr. woman and a Greek man and woman to be buried
his opinion is cited by authors writing upon the alive in the ox-market at Rome. The whole of
edict.
(J. T. G. ) Fullo's consulship was employed in preparations
FULCI'NIUS TRIO. (Trio. ]
for a Gaulish war and a general levy of the Italian
FULGE’NTIUS, FA'BIUS PLANCI'ADES people. (Polyb. ii. 22 ; Liv. Epit. xx. , xxii. 17;
(not PLACIADES), a Latin grammarian of uncertain Plut. Marcell. 3 ; Oros. iv. 13 ; Zonar. viii. p.
date, probably not earlier than the sixth cen- 403. c. ; Plin. H. N. iii. 20. )
tury after Christ. His barbarous and inflated 2. L. APustius Fullo, son probably of the
style yields strong indications of African origin, preceding. He was aedile of the lebs in B. C.
but he must by no means be confounded with Ful- 202, when the plebeian games in the Flaminian
gentius, who was bishop of Ruspe about the year Circus were thrice repeated. Fullo was Praetor
A. D. 508, nor with Fulgentius Ferrandus, a pupil Urbanus in B. C. 196, and afterwards commissioner
of that prelate. Three works which bear evident under a plebiscite of Q. Aelius Tubero, for estab-
marks of the same hand are ascribed to Fabius lishing a Latin colony in the district of Thurii,
Planciades Fulgentius.
B. C. 194. (Liv. xxxi. 4, xxxiii. 24, 26, xxxiv.
I. Mythologiarum Libri III. ad Catum Presbyte- 53, xxxv. 9. )
(W. B. D. ]
A collection of the most remarkable tales FULLO'NIUS SATURNI'NUS. (SATUR-
connected with the history and exploits of gods NINUS. )
and heroes. A few incidents derived from sources FUʻLVIA. 1. A Roman lady of rank, but of
now no longer accessible may be gathered here loose morality. She lived on terms of intimacy with
and there from this generally worthless compilation; Q. Curius, an accomplice of the Catilinarian con-
but the attempts to rationalise the legends are cha- spiracy, who told her of the scheme that was atioat.
racterised by the wildest extravagance, while the As Curius had not the means of satisfying her ex-
Greek etymologies of proper names are perfect travagant demands upon him, she took vengeance
portents of folly or ignorance.
by divulging his secret : she communicated it,
II. Eapositio Sermonum Antiquorum cum Testi- among others also, to Cicero, and thus became the
moniis ad Chalcidicum Grammaticum. A glossary, means of suppressing the conspiracy. (Sall. Cat.
as the name imports, of obsolete words and phrases. 23, 26, 28. )
It is very short, and almost entirely without value, 2. A daughter of M. Fulvius Bambalio of Tus.
for many of the passages which profess to be quo- culum, by Sempronia, a grand-danghter of Tudi.
(P. S. )
; bet
an intimate friend of Cicer, whe
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FULVIA.
FULVIUS.
tanus. She was first married to P. Clodius, by | Vell. Pat. ii. 74; Cic. Phil. ii. 5, 31, iü. 6, ad
whom she had a daughter, Claudia, afterwards the Att. xiv. 12; Val. Max. ix. l. § 8; Niebuhr,
wife of Caesar Octavianus. When Clodius was Lectures on Kom. Ilist. vol. ii. p. 121, &c. ) (L. S. )
murdered, and his body was carried to Rome, and FULVIA PLAUTILLA. (PLAUTILLA. )
there exposed in the atrium of his house, Fulvin, FU'LVIA GENS (of which the older term was
with great lamentations, showed her husband's Foulvia), plebeian, but one of the most illustrious
wounds to the multitude that came to see the Roman gentes. According to Cicero (pro Planc.
body; and she thus inflamed their desire of taking 8, comp. Phil. ii. 6) and Pliny (H. N. vii. 44),
vengeance on the murderer. She afterwards this gens had come to Rome from Tusculum,
married C. Scribonius Curio; and after his fall in although some members must have remained in
Africa, in B. C. 49, she lived for some years as a their native place, since Fulvii occur at Tusculum
widow, until about B. C. 44, she married M. An- as late as the tiine of Cicero. The gens Fulvin was
'tony, by whom she became the mother of two believed to have received its sacra from Hercules
sons. Up to the time of her marrying Antony, after he had accomplished his twelve labours. The
she had been a woman of most dissolute conduci, cognomens which occur in this gens in the time of
but henceforth she clung to Antony with the most the republic are BAMBALIO, CEXTUMALUS, CUR-
passionate attachment, and her only ambition was vus (omitted under Curvus, but given nnder
to see her husband occupy the first place in the Fulvius), FLACCUA, Gillo, Nacca, NOBILIOR,
republic, at whatever cost that position might be PAETINUS, and Veratius, or NERATIUS. The
purchased. When Antony was declared a public annexed coin, belonging to this gens, bears on the
enemy, she addressed the most humble entreaties obverse a head of Pallas, with Roma, and on the
to the senate, praying that they might alter their reverse Victory in a biga, with cx. FOUL M. CAL.
resolution. Her brutal conduct during the fearful 2. MET. , that is, Cn. Fulvius, M. Calidius, Q. Me
proscriptions of B. C. 43 is well known; she gazed tellus.
(L. S. )
with delight upon the heads of Cicero and Rufus,
the victims of her husband. In those same days
of terror a number of wealthy Roman ladies were
ordered to deliver up their treasures to the tri-
umvirs, whereupon they called upon the female
relatives of the triumvirs, and petitioned them to
CATO
interfere with the triumvirs, and endeavour to
mitigate the order. When the ladies came to the
house of Fulvia, they were treated most haughtily FULVIA'NUS, L. MA'NLIUS ACIDI'NUS.
and ignominiously. In B. C. 40, while Antony was [Acidinus, No. 2. ]
Tevelling with Cleopatra in all the luxuries of the FU'LVIUS. 1. L. Fulvius CURIUS, was con-
East, and Octavianus was rewarding his soldiers sul in B. C. 322, with Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus.
with lands in Italy, Fulvia, stimulated partly by He is the first Fulvius that we meet with in the his-
jealousy and the desire of drawing Antony back to tory of Rome, and is said to have been consul at Tus
Italy, and partly by her hostility towards Octavi- culum in the year in which that town revolted against
anus, resolved upon raising a commotion in Italy. Rome; and on going over to the Romans to have
She induced L. Antonius, her husband's brother, to been invested there with the same office, and to
come forwards as the protector of those who were have triumphed over his own countrymen. He
oppressed and reduced to poverty by the colonies and his colleague were further said, in some annals,
of Octavianus. He was soon joined by others, to have conquered the Samnites, and to have
who were more sincere than himself. He took his triumphed over them. In B. c. 313 he was ma-
post at Praeneste whither he was followed by gister equitum to the dictator, L. Aemilius, whom
Fulvia, who pretended that the lives of her children he accompanied to besiege Saticula (Plin. H. N.
were threatened by Lepidus. She afterwards fol. vii. 44 ; Liv. viii. 38, ix. 21. )
lowed L. Antonius to Perusia, and endeavoured to 2. M. FULVIUS Curius PAETINUS, consul in B. C.
rouse the inhabitants of the north of Italy to assist 305, in the place of T. Minucius, who had fallen
him, while he was besieged at Perusia by Octavi- in the war against the Samnites. According to
When Perusia fell into the hands of Octa- some annalists, M.
Fulvius took the town of Bo-
vianus, by the treachery of L. Antonius, Fulvia vianum, and celebrated a triumph over the Sam-
was permitted to escape, and went to Brundusium, nites. (Liv. ix. 44. )
where she embarked for Greece. Her husband, 3. C. Fulvius Curvus, one of the plebeian
who had in the meantime been informed of the aediles in B. c. 298. (Liv. I. 23. )
war of Perusia and its result, was on his way to 4. A. FULVIUS, the son of a Roman, and an
Italy. He met Fulvia at Athens, and censured accomplice of the Catilinarian conspiracy ; but
her severely for having caused the disturbance. It when he was on his way to Catiline, his father,
is said that, from grief at his rough treatment, she who was informed of his son's design, overtook
was taken ill, and in this state he left her at him, and ordered him to be put to death. (Sall.
Sicyon while he went to Brundusium. Her feel- Cat. 39; Dion Cass. xxxvii. 36 ; Val. Max. v. &
ings were so deeply wounded by her husband's con- 5. )
(L. S. )
duct, that she took no care of herself, and soon after FU'LVIUS, praefectus urbi in A. D. 222, was
died at Sicyon, B. C. 40. The news of her death torn to pieces, along with Aurelius Eubulus (Ex-
came very opportunely for the triumvirs, who now BULUS), by the soldiers and people, in the mas-
formed a reconciliation, which was cemented by sacre which followed the death of Elagabalus, and
Antony marrying the noble-minded Octavia. was succeeded in office by the notorious Eutychi-
(Plut. Anton. ;, &c. ; Appian, B. C. iii. 51, iv. 29, anus Comazon. He is perhaps the same person
32, v. 14, 19, 21, 33, 43, 50, 52, 55, 59, 62; with the consular, Fulvius Diogenianus (Diogeni-
Dion. Cass. xlvi. 56, xlvii. 8, &c. ; xlviii. 3—28 ; ) Ants), whose rash exclamation, on hearing the
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letter addressed by Macrinus to the senate, has | Seneca. (Ep. 86. ) Fundanius was cited also hy
heen commemorated by Dion Cassius. (Dion Cass. Varro in one of his philological treatises. (Varr.
lxxviii. 36, lxxix. 21. )
(W. R. ] R. R. i. 2. & 13, Frag. p. 349, ed. Bipont. )
FULVIUS ASPRIA'NUS, an historian, who 3. M. FUNDANIUS, defended by Cicero, B. C. 65.
detailed at great length the doings of the emperor The scanty fragments of the “Oratio pro M. Fun-
Carinus. (Vopisc. Carin. 16. )
danio" do not enable us to understand either the
FULVUS, the name of a family of the Aurelii, nature of the charge or the result of the trinl. (Cic.
under the empire, from which the emperor Anto- Fragm. ed. Orelli, p. 445. ) Q. Cicero (de Petit
.
ninus was descended, whose name was originally Cons. 5) says that Fundanius possessed great inte-
T. Aelius Fulvus. (See the genealogical table in rest in the comitin and would be very serviceable
Vol. I. pp. 210, 211. )
to M. Cicero at his approaching consular election.
FUNDA'NIA, the daughter of C. Fundanius Cicero held up to ridicule one of the witnesses for
[No. 2), and wife of M. Terentius Varro. (Varro). the prosecution on this trial, who could not enun-
Fundania had purchased an estate, and Varro com-cinte properly the first letter in the name Funda-
posed his three books, De Re Rusticu, as a manual nius. (Quintil
. Instit. i. 4. § 14. ) While procon-
for her instruction in the management of it. The sul of Asia Minor, B. c. 59, Q. Cicero favoured one
first of these books, entitled De Agricultura, is C. Fundanius in his demands on the property of
dedicated to her. (Varr. R. R. i. 1. ) (W. B. D. ) Octavius Naso; and as it is doubtful whether the
FUNDA'NIA GENS, plebeian, first came into nomen of this Fundanius were Marcus or Caius, it
notice in the middle of the third century B. C. ; is not unlikely that Naso's creditor and the de-
but though one of its members obtained the con- fendant, B. C. 65, were the same person. (Cic. ad
sulship (B. C. 243), the Fundanii never attained Q. Frat. i. 3. § 10. )
much importance in the state. FUNDULUS is the 4. C. FONDANIUS, perhaps a son of No. 2, is
only cognomen that occurs in this gens. [W. B. D. ] spoken of by Cicero (ad Q. Fr. i. 2. § 3) as a
It is uncertain to whom the two following coins friend of his. He may be the same as the C.
of this gens, both of which bear the name Č. Fun- Fundanius, a Roman eques, who, in the Spanish
danius, are to be referred. The first has on the war, B. C. 45, deserted Cn. Pompeius the Younger,
obverse the bead of Jupiter, and on the reverse and came over to Caesar a few days previous to
Victory placing a crown upon a trophy, with a the capture of Ategua (Tebala Veja or Tegua) in
Baetica by the Caesarians, on the 19th of February
in that year. (Bell. Hisp. 11. )
5. C. FUNDA'NIUS, a writer of comedies in the
age of Augustus. Horace (Sat. i. 10. 41, 42)
praises his management of the slaves and intri-
gantes of the comic drama. He puts into the
mouth of Fundanius (Sat. ii. 8. 19) a description
captive kneeling by the side : the second has on of the rich but vulgar supper of Nasidienus, that
the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse is, of Salvidienus Rufus. (Suet. Octav. 66 ; Vet.
Jupiter in a quadriga, the horses of which are Schol. ad Hor. Sat. i. 10. 41. ) [W. B. D. ]
driven by a person sitting upon one of them; the FU'NDULUS. 1. C. FUNDANIUS C. F. Q.