in the
editions
of Jo.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
v.
)
Flacc. 3. ) He was praetor in B. C. 63, the year of and an ear of corn, with L. VALERI FLACCI. The
Cicero's consulship, who through his assistance got apex shows that this L. Flaccus was a flamen, and
possession of the documents which the Allobrogian he may therefore have been either the L. Flaccus
ambassadors bad received from the accomplices of consul in B. c. 131 (No. 10), who was a flamen of
Catiline. In the year after his praetorship he had Mars, or the L. Flaccus, a contemporary of Cicero
the administration of Asia, in which he was suc- [ No. 18], who was also a flamen of Mars. (Eck-
ceeded by Q. Cicero. (Cic. pro Flacc, 13, 14, 21, hel, vol. v. p. 333. )
40. ) In B. C. 59 he was accused by D. Laelius of
having been guilty of extortion in his province of
Asia ; but Flaccus, although he was undoubtedly
guilty, was defended by Cicero (in the oration pro
Flacco, which is still extant) and Q. Hortensius,
and was acquitted. (Comp. Cic. in Cat. iii. 2, 6 ;
ad Att. i. 19, i. 25, in Pison, 23; the oration pro
Flacco; pro Planc. 11; Schol. Bob. p. Flacc. p. 228;
Sallust, Cat. 45. )
16. C. VALERIUS Flaccus, a friend of App. FLACCUS, C. VALERIUS. All that is
Claudius Pulcher, whom Cicero saw in Cilicia B. C. known or that can be conjectured with plausibility
5). (Cic. ad Fum. iii. 4, 11. )
in regard to this writer may be comprehended
17. L. Valerius Flaccus, a son of No. 15. in a very few words. From the expressions of his
When Cicero defended his father, Lucius was yet friend Martial (i. 62, 77), we learn that he was a
a little boy, and the orator introduced him into native of Padua ; from the exordium of his piece,
the court, for the purpose of exciting the pity of we infer that it was addressed to Vespasian, and
the judges. In the civil war between Caesar and published while Titus was achieving the sub-
Pompey, Flaccus fought on the side of the latter, jugation of Judea ; from a notice in Quintilian,
and was killed in the battle of Dyrrhachium, B. C. Dodwell has drawn the conclusion that he must
48. (Cic. pro Flacc. 36, Orat. 38 ; Caes. B. C. have died about A. D. 88. The lines (v. 5),
18. L. VALBRICS Flaccus, a flamen of Mars, a
“ Phoebe, mone, si Cymaeae mihi conscia vatis
contemporary of Cicero, whose brother Quintus
Stat casta cortina domo,"
had heard him give an account of a marvellous oc- whatever may be their import, are not in themselves
currence. (Cic. de Divin. i. 46 ; Varro, de L. L. sufficient to prove, as Pius and Heinsius imagine,
vi. 21. ) That he cannot be the same as the one that he was a member of the sacred college of the
mentioned, No. 10, is evident from the dates. Eck- Quindecimviri ; and the words Setinus Balbus,
hel (Joctr. Num. vol. v. p. 333) believes that he is affixed to his name in certain MSS. , are much too
the same as the Flaccus whom Cicero defended ; doubtful in their origin and signification to serve
but the latter is described by Cicero as praetor, as the basis of any hypothesis, even if we were
whereas our L. Valerius Flaccus is expressly called certain that they applied to the poet himself, and
Flaccus, the flamen of Mars, both by Cicero and not to some commentator on the text, or to some
Varro.
individual who may at one time have possessed
19. P. VALERIUS FLAccUS, the accuser of the codex which formed the archetype of a family.
Carbo. (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 21. ) (L. S. ] The only work of Flaccus now extant is an un-
There are several coins of the Valeria gens be- finished heroic poem in eight books, on the Argo-
longing to the family of the Flacci. Of these, three nautic expedition, in which he follows the general
Flici
:
iii. 53. )
nisulship, Flaccus bad carmed
decreed that debts should
quadrans be paid to the
at death was regarded as 3
niquitous l3". (Lir. Era
1, &c. , Bell. Căr. i. 13;
2 ; Cic. pro Flac. 23, 25,
), in Cat. i. 2, Bre;
Cass. Fragm. Per. . ta
It was probably this
ried the legions which
Perianae, and which are
cucullus against Mitha
on Cass. intr. 14, 15,
-. )
CU'S When Salla e -
at of his enemies
, be
bint an interes: the
Flaccus, who inime
7 carried a las umat
h the supreme power
ndefinite number of
gements he had pre
oped, and binding as
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tum. (Plat Samay
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whose performance he in some passages literally glische ;"_into French by A. Dureau de Lamalle,
translates, while in others he contracts or expands Paris, 1811 ;-into Italian by M. A. Pindemonte,
his original, introduces new characters, and on the Verona, 1776 ;-and into German by C. F. Wun-
whole devotes a larger portion of the action to the derlich, Erfurt, 1805.
(W. R. )
adventnres of the voyage before the arrival of the FLACCUS, VER'RIUS, a freedman by birth,
heroes at the dominions of Aëtes. The eighth book and a distinguished grammarian, in the latter
terminates abruptly, at the point where Medeia is part of the first century B. C. His reputation as a
urging Jason to make her the companion of his teacher of grammar, or rather philology, procured
homeward journey. The death of Absyrtus, and him the favour of Augustus, who took him into his
the return of the Greeks, must have occupied at household, and entrusted him with the education of
least three or four books more, but whether these his grandsons, Caius and Lucius Caesar. Flaccus
have been lost, or whether the author died before lodged in a part of the palace which contained the
the completion of his task, we cannot tell.
Atriuin Catilinae. This was his lecture-room,
The Argonautica is one of those productions where he was allowed to continue his instructions
which are much praised and little read. A kind to his former scholars, but not to admit any new
but vague expression of regret upon the part of pupils, after he became preceptor of the young
Quintilian (x. l), “Multum in Valerio Flacco Cresnrs. If we receive Ernesti's correction of
nuper amisimus," has induced many of the older Suetonius (Octav. 86), it was the pure and per-
critics to ascribe to Flaccus almost every conceiv-spicuous Latinity of Verrius, not Veranius, Flaccus,
able merit; and, even in modern times, Wagner which Augustus contrasted with the harsh and
has not hesitated to rank him next to Virgil among obsolete diction of Annius Cimber. Flaccus re-
the epic bards of Rome. But it is difficult to dis- ceived a yearly salary of more than 800. He died
cover any thing in his lays beyond decent medio at an advanced age, in the reign of Tiberius.
crity. We may accord to him the praise of mo- At the lower end of the market-place at Prae-
derate talents, improved by industry and learning, neste was a statue of Verrius Flaccus, fronting the
but we shall seek in vain for originality, or the Hemicyclium, on the inner curve of which, so as to
higher attributes of genius. He never startles us be visible to all persons in the forum (Vitruv. v. 1),
by any gross offence against taste, but he never were set up marble tablets, inscribed with the Fasti
warms us by a brilliant thought, or charms us by Verriani. These should be distinguished from the
a lofty flight of fancy. His diction is for the most Fasti Praenestini. The latter, like the similar Fasti
part pure, although strange words occasionally in- of Aricium, Tibur, Tusculum, &c. were the town-
trude themselves, and common words are some records. But the Fasti of Flaccus were a calendar
times employed in an uncommon sense ; his general of the days and vacations of public business—dies
style is free from affectation, although there is a fasti, nefasti, and intercisi -of religious festivals,
constant tendency to harsh conciseness, which fre triumphs, &c. , especially including such as were
quently renders the meaning obscure ; his versifi- peculiar to the family of the Caesars. In 1770 the
cation is polished and harmonious, but the rhythm foundations of the Hemicyclium of Praeneste were
is not judiciously varied ; his descriptions are discovered, and among the ruins were found por-
lively and vigorous, but his similes too often far- tions of an ancient calendar, which proved to be
fetched and winatural. He has attained to some fragments of the Fasti Verriani. Further portions
what of the outward form, but to nothing of the were recovered in subsequent excavations, and
in ward spirit, of his great model, the Aeneid. Foggini, an Italian antiquary, reconstructed from
Valerius Flaccus seems to have been altogether them the entire months of January, March, April,
unknown in the middle ages, and to have been and December, and a small portion of February
first brought to light by Poggio Brocciolini, who, was afterwards annexed. (Franc. Foggini, Fasto
while attending the council of Constance in 1416, rum Ann. Roman. Reliquiae, &c. Rom. 1779, fol. ;
discovered in the monastery of St. Gall (see As and Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Fasti. ) They are also
CONIUS) a MS. containing the first three books, given at the end of Wolfs edition of Suetonins,
and a portion of the fourth. The Editio Princeps 8vo. Lips. 1802, and in Orelli's Inscriptiones La-
was printed very incorrectly, from a good MS. , at tinae, vol. ii. p. 379.
Bologna, by Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, Flaccus was an antiquary, an historian, a phi-
fol. 1472 ; the second edition, which is much more lologer, and perhaps a poet ; at least Priscian (viii
.
rare than the first, at Florence, by Sanctus Jacobus p. 792) ascribes to him an hexameter line, " Blan-
de Ripoli, 4to, without date, but about 1431. The ditusque labor molli curabitur arte. " It is seldom
text was gradually improved by the collation of possible to assign to their proper heads the frage
various MSS.
in the editions of Jo. Bapt. Pius, ments of his numerous writings. But the follow-
Bonon. fol. 1519; of Lud. Carrio, Antv. 8vo. 1565 ing works may be attributed to him:- An historical
-1566; of Nicolaus Heinsius, Amst. 12mo. 1680; collection or compendium, entitled Rerum Memoria
and above all in that of Petrus Burmannus, Leid. Dignarum, of which A. Gellius (iv. 5) cites the
4to. , 1724, which must be regarded as the most first book for the story of the Etruscan arus
complete which has yet appeared ; although those pices, who gave perfidious counsel to Rome (Nie
of Harles, Altenb. 8vo. 1781 ; of Wagner, Gotting. buhr, Hist. Rome, vol. i. p. 543); a History of
8vo. 1805 ; and of Lemaire, Paris, 8vo. 1824, are the Etruscans-- Rerum Etruscarum—(Intpp. ad
more convenient for ordinary purposes. The eighth Aen. x. 183, 198, ed. Mai; compare also Serv.
book was published separately, with critical notes ad Aen. vii. 53, viii. 203, xi. 143); a treatise,
and dissertations on some verses supposed to be De Orthographia (Suet. In. Gramm. 17). This
spurious, by A. Weichert, Misn. 8vo. 1818. work drew upon Flaccus the anger of a rival
We have metrical translations,—into English teacher of philology, Scribonius Aphrodisius, who
by Nicholas Whyte, 1565, under the title “ The wrote a reply, and mixed up with the controrersy
story of Jason, how he gotte the golden fiece, and reflections on the learning and character of Flac
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Flaccus was also the author of a work en- Gregory Nyssen, composed a funeral discourse
titled Suturnus, or Saturnulia (Macrob. Saturn. i. for her. All writers conspire to praise Flaccilla
4,8), and of another, De Obscuris Catonis, on the for her piety, and charity, and orthodoxy, and she
archaisms used by Cato the Censor : the second has been canonized in the Greek Church. (Greg.
book of which is cited by A. Gellius (xvii. 6). Be Nyss. Orat. Funeb. pro Flaccilla ; Theodoret, Hist.
sides the preceding references, Flaccus is quoted by Ecc. v. 19; Themist. De Ilumun. Thcodos. Imp. ;
Gellius (v. 17, 18), who refers to the fourth book, Sozom. Hist. Eccles. vii. 6; Chron. Aler. v. Pas-
De Significatu Verborum, of Flaccus, while discuss chal. p. 563, ed. Bonn. ; Tillemont, llist. des Emp.
ing the difference between history and annals (see vol. v. pp. 143, 192, 252. ) [J. C. M. )
also xvi. 14, xviii. 7), and by Macrobius (Saturn. i.
10, 12, 16). Flaccus is cited by Pliny in his
Elenchos (11. N. 1), or summary
the materials
of his Historia Nuturalis, generally (Lib. i. iii. vii.
viij. xiv. xv. xviii. xxviï. xxix. xxxiii. xxxiv.
in
Xxxv. ), and specially, but without distinguishing
COIN OF FLACCILLA.
the particular work of Flaccus which he consulted
(H. V. vii. 53, s. 54, mortes repentinae ; viii. 6, FLAMEN, Q. CLAU'DIUS, praetor B. c. 209,
elephantos in circo; ix. 23, s. 39, praeteztalos mu- the eleventh year of the second Punic war.
raenurum tergore verberatos ; xviii. 7, s. 11, far province was the Sallentine district and Tarentuin,
P. Rom. victus; xxviii. 2. § 4, Deorum evocatio ; and he succeeded M. Marcellus in the command of
xxxiii. 3. $ 19, Tarquinii Prisci aurea tunica ; 16, two legions, forming the third division of the
7. $ 36, Jovis facies minio illita). Flaccus is also Roman army, then in the field against Hannibal.
referred to by Lactantius (Instit
. i. 20), by Arno- (Liv. xxvii. 21, 22. ) He was propraetor B. c. 207,
bius (adv. Gent. i. 59), and by Isidorus (Orig. xiv. and his command was prolonged ihrough the next
8. § 33). But the work which more than any year. (xxvii. 43, xxviii. 10. ) In 207, while Flamen
other embodies the fragments of an author, whose was in the neighbourhood of Tarentum, his out-
Joss to classical antiquity is probably second only posts brought in two Numidians, the bearers of
to that of Varro, is the treatise, De Verborum Sig letters from Hasdrubal at Placentia to Hannibal
nificatione, of Festus. Festus abridged a work of at Metapontum. Flamen wrung from them the
the same kind, and with probably a similar title, secret of their being entrusted with letters and
by Verrius Flaccus, from which also some of the then despatched the Numidians, strongly guarded,
extracts in Gellius and Macrobius, and the citations with the letters unopened to the consul, Claudius
in the later grammarians, Priscianus, Diomedes, Nero. (Nero. ] The discovery of the letters saved
Charisius, and Velius Longus, are probably taken. Rome ; for they were sent to apprise Hannibal of
Of this work of Flaccus, a full account is given his brother's presence in Italy, and to arrange the
under Festus. (Sueton. IU. Gramm. 17 ; K. 0. junction of their armies.
(W. B. D. ]
Müller, Praefatio ad Pornpeium Festum, Lips. FLAMI'NIA GENS, plebeian. During the
1839. ).
(W. B. D. ] first five centuries of Rome no mention is made of
FLACCUS, VESCULA'RIUS, a Roman any member of the Flaminia Gens. The name is
eques in the confidence of the emperor Tiberius, to evidently a derivative from flumen, and seems to
whom he betrayed Scribonius Libo in A. D. 16. have originally denoted a servant of a filamen.
[Drusus, No. 10. ] It is uncertain whether the Ves- (Paul. Diac. s. vv. Flaminius Cumillus, Flaminius
cularius condemned by Tiberius in a. D. 32 be the Lictor. ). In former times the Flaminii were be-
same person, some MSS. reading Atticus, others lieved to be only a family of the Quintia gens;
Flaccus, as the cognomen. (Tac. Ann. ii
.
Flacc. 3. ) He was praetor in B. C. 63, the year of and an ear of corn, with L. VALERI FLACCI. The
Cicero's consulship, who through his assistance got apex shows that this L. Flaccus was a flamen, and
possession of the documents which the Allobrogian he may therefore have been either the L. Flaccus
ambassadors bad received from the accomplices of consul in B. c. 131 (No. 10), who was a flamen of
Catiline. In the year after his praetorship he had Mars, or the L. Flaccus, a contemporary of Cicero
the administration of Asia, in which he was suc- [ No. 18], who was also a flamen of Mars. (Eck-
ceeded by Q. Cicero. (Cic. pro Flacc, 13, 14, 21, hel, vol. v. p. 333. )
40. ) In B. C. 59 he was accused by D. Laelius of
having been guilty of extortion in his province of
Asia ; but Flaccus, although he was undoubtedly
guilty, was defended by Cicero (in the oration pro
Flacco, which is still extant) and Q. Hortensius,
and was acquitted. (Comp. Cic. in Cat. iii. 2, 6 ;
ad Att. i. 19, i. 25, in Pison, 23; the oration pro
Flacco; pro Planc. 11; Schol. Bob. p. Flacc. p. 228;
Sallust, Cat. 45. )
16. C. VALERIUS Flaccus, a friend of App. FLACCUS, C. VALERIUS. All that is
Claudius Pulcher, whom Cicero saw in Cilicia B. C. known or that can be conjectured with plausibility
5). (Cic. ad Fum. iii. 4, 11. )
in regard to this writer may be comprehended
17. L. Valerius Flaccus, a son of No. 15. in a very few words. From the expressions of his
When Cicero defended his father, Lucius was yet friend Martial (i. 62, 77), we learn that he was a
a little boy, and the orator introduced him into native of Padua ; from the exordium of his piece,
the court, for the purpose of exciting the pity of we infer that it was addressed to Vespasian, and
the judges. In the civil war between Caesar and published while Titus was achieving the sub-
Pompey, Flaccus fought on the side of the latter, jugation of Judea ; from a notice in Quintilian,
and was killed in the battle of Dyrrhachium, B. C. Dodwell has drawn the conclusion that he must
48. (Cic. pro Flacc. 36, Orat. 38 ; Caes. B. C. have died about A. D. 88. The lines (v. 5),
18. L. VALBRICS Flaccus, a flamen of Mars, a
“ Phoebe, mone, si Cymaeae mihi conscia vatis
contemporary of Cicero, whose brother Quintus
Stat casta cortina domo,"
had heard him give an account of a marvellous oc- whatever may be their import, are not in themselves
currence. (Cic. de Divin. i. 46 ; Varro, de L. L. sufficient to prove, as Pius and Heinsius imagine,
vi. 21. ) That he cannot be the same as the one that he was a member of the sacred college of the
mentioned, No. 10, is evident from the dates. Eck- Quindecimviri ; and the words Setinus Balbus,
hel (Joctr. Num. vol. v. p. 333) believes that he is affixed to his name in certain MSS. , are much too
the same as the Flaccus whom Cicero defended ; doubtful in their origin and signification to serve
but the latter is described by Cicero as praetor, as the basis of any hypothesis, even if we were
whereas our L. Valerius Flaccus is expressly called certain that they applied to the poet himself, and
Flaccus, the flamen of Mars, both by Cicero and not to some commentator on the text, or to some
Varro.
individual who may at one time have possessed
19. P. VALERIUS FLAccUS, the accuser of the codex which formed the archetype of a family.
Carbo. (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 21. ) (L. S. ] The only work of Flaccus now extant is an un-
There are several coins of the Valeria gens be- finished heroic poem in eight books, on the Argo-
longing to the family of the Flacci. Of these, three nautic expedition, in which he follows the general
Flici
:
iii. 53. )
nisulship, Flaccus bad carmed
decreed that debts should
quadrans be paid to the
at death was regarded as 3
niquitous l3". (Lir. Era
1, &c. , Bell. Căr. i. 13;
2 ; Cic. pro Flac. 23, 25,
), in Cat. i. 2, Bre;
Cass. Fragm. Per. . ta
It was probably this
ried the legions which
Perianae, and which are
cucullus against Mitha
on Cass. intr. 14, 15,
-. )
CU'S When Salla e -
at of his enemies
, be
bint an interes: the
Flaccus, who inime
7 carried a las umat
h the supreme power
ndefinite number of
gements he had pre
oped, and binding as
on the dictatorship
tum. (Plat Samay
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FLACCUS.
FLACCUS.
1
azia
book in
, في سهرا
T.
H. . . -
P. kama
by a
plan and arrangement of A pollonius Rhodius, | how he did begyle Media ; out of Laten into En-
whose performance he in some passages literally glische ;"_into French by A. Dureau de Lamalle,
translates, while in others he contracts or expands Paris, 1811 ;-into Italian by M. A. Pindemonte,
his original, introduces new characters, and on the Verona, 1776 ;-and into German by C. F. Wun-
whole devotes a larger portion of the action to the derlich, Erfurt, 1805.
(W. R. )
adventnres of the voyage before the arrival of the FLACCUS, VER'RIUS, a freedman by birth,
heroes at the dominions of Aëtes. The eighth book and a distinguished grammarian, in the latter
terminates abruptly, at the point where Medeia is part of the first century B. C. His reputation as a
urging Jason to make her the companion of his teacher of grammar, or rather philology, procured
homeward journey. The death of Absyrtus, and him the favour of Augustus, who took him into his
the return of the Greeks, must have occupied at household, and entrusted him with the education of
least three or four books more, but whether these his grandsons, Caius and Lucius Caesar. Flaccus
have been lost, or whether the author died before lodged in a part of the palace which contained the
the completion of his task, we cannot tell.
Atriuin Catilinae. This was his lecture-room,
The Argonautica is one of those productions where he was allowed to continue his instructions
which are much praised and little read. A kind to his former scholars, but not to admit any new
but vague expression of regret upon the part of pupils, after he became preceptor of the young
Quintilian (x. l), “Multum in Valerio Flacco Cresnrs. If we receive Ernesti's correction of
nuper amisimus," has induced many of the older Suetonius (Octav. 86), it was the pure and per-
critics to ascribe to Flaccus almost every conceiv-spicuous Latinity of Verrius, not Veranius, Flaccus,
able merit; and, even in modern times, Wagner which Augustus contrasted with the harsh and
has not hesitated to rank him next to Virgil among obsolete diction of Annius Cimber. Flaccus re-
the epic bards of Rome. But it is difficult to dis- ceived a yearly salary of more than 800. He died
cover any thing in his lays beyond decent medio at an advanced age, in the reign of Tiberius.
crity. We may accord to him the praise of mo- At the lower end of the market-place at Prae-
derate talents, improved by industry and learning, neste was a statue of Verrius Flaccus, fronting the
but we shall seek in vain for originality, or the Hemicyclium, on the inner curve of which, so as to
higher attributes of genius. He never startles us be visible to all persons in the forum (Vitruv. v. 1),
by any gross offence against taste, but he never were set up marble tablets, inscribed with the Fasti
warms us by a brilliant thought, or charms us by Verriani. These should be distinguished from the
a lofty flight of fancy. His diction is for the most Fasti Praenestini. The latter, like the similar Fasti
part pure, although strange words occasionally in- of Aricium, Tibur, Tusculum, &c. were the town-
trude themselves, and common words are some records. But the Fasti of Flaccus were a calendar
times employed in an uncommon sense ; his general of the days and vacations of public business—dies
style is free from affectation, although there is a fasti, nefasti, and intercisi -of religious festivals,
constant tendency to harsh conciseness, which fre triumphs, &c. , especially including such as were
quently renders the meaning obscure ; his versifi- peculiar to the family of the Caesars. In 1770 the
cation is polished and harmonious, but the rhythm foundations of the Hemicyclium of Praeneste were
is not judiciously varied ; his descriptions are discovered, and among the ruins were found por-
lively and vigorous, but his similes too often far- tions of an ancient calendar, which proved to be
fetched and winatural. He has attained to some fragments of the Fasti Verriani. Further portions
what of the outward form, but to nothing of the were recovered in subsequent excavations, and
in ward spirit, of his great model, the Aeneid. Foggini, an Italian antiquary, reconstructed from
Valerius Flaccus seems to have been altogether them the entire months of January, March, April,
unknown in the middle ages, and to have been and December, and a small portion of February
first brought to light by Poggio Brocciolini, who, was afterwards annexed. (Franc. Foggini, Fasto
while attending the council of Constance in 1416, rum Ann. Roman. Reliquiae, &c. Rom. 1779, fol. ;
discovered in the monastery of St. Gall (see As and Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Fasti. ) They are also
CONIUS) a MS. containing the first three books, given at the end of Wolfs edition of Suetonins,
and a portion of the fourth. The Editio Princeps 8vo. Lips. 1802, and in Orelli's Inscriptiones La-
was printed very incorrectly, from a good MS. , at tinae, vol. ii. p. 379.
Bologna, by Ugo Rugerius and Doninus Bertochus, Flaccus was an antiquary, an historian, a phi-
fol. 1472 ; the second edition, which is much more lologer, and perhaps a poet ; at least Priscian (viii
.
rare than the first, at Florence, by Sanctus Jacobus p. 792) ascribes to him an hexameter line, " Blan-
de Ripoli, 4to, without date, but about 1431. The ditusque labor molli curabitur arte. " It is seldom
text was gradually improved by the collation of possible to assign to their proper heads the frage
various MSS.
in the editions of Jo. Bapt. Pius, ments of his numerous writings. But the follow-
Bonon. fol. 1519; of Lud. Carrio, Antv. 8vo. 1565 ing works may be attributed to him:- An historical
-1566; of Nicolaus Heinsius, Amst. 12mo. 1680; collection or compendium, entitled Rerum Memoria
and above all in that of Petrus Burmannus, Leid. Dignarum, of which A. Gellius (iv. 5) cites the
4to. , 1724, which must be regarded as the most first book for the story of the Etruscan arus
complete which has yet appeared ; although those pices, who gave perfidious counsel to Rome (Nie
of Harles, Altenb. 8vo. 1781 ; of Wagner, Gotting. buhr, Hist. Rome, vol. i. p. 543); a History of
8vo. 1805 ; and of Lemaire, Paris, 8vo. 1824, are the Etruscans-- Rerum Etruscarum—(Intpp. ad
more convenient for ordinary purposes. The eighth Aen. x. 183, 198, ed. Mai; compare also Serv.
book was published separately, with critical notes ad Aen. vii. 53, viii. 203, xi. 143); a treatise,
and dissertations on some verses supposed to be De Orthographia (Suet. In. Gramm. 17). This
spurious, by A. Weichert, Misn. 8vo. 1818. work drew upon Flaccus the anger of a rival
We have metrical translations,—into English teacher of philology, Scribonius Aphrodisius, who
by Nicholas Whyte, 1565, under the title “ The wrote a reply, and mixed up with the controrersy
story of Jason, how he gotte the golden fiece, and reflections on the learning and character of Flac
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Flaccus was also the author of a work en- Gregory Nyssen, composed a funeral discourse
titled Suturnus, or Saturnulia (Macrob. Saturn. i. for her. All writers conspire to praise Flaccilla
4,8), and of another, De Obscuris Catonis, on the for her piety, and charity, and orthodoxy, and she
archaisms used by Cato the Censor : the second has been canonized in the Greek Church. (Greg.
book of which is cited by A. Gellius (xvii. 6). Be Nyss. Orat. Funeb. pro Flaccilla ; Theodoret, Hist.
sides the preceding references, Flaccus is quoted by Ecc. v. 19; Themist. De Ilumun. Thcodos. Imp. ;
Gellius (v. 17, 18), who refers to the fourth book, Sozom. Hist. Eccles. vii. 6; Chron. Aler. v. Pas-
De Significatu Verborum, of Flaccus, while discuss chal. p. 563, ed. Bonn. ; Tillemont, llist. des Emp.
ing the difference between history and annals (see vol. v. pp. 143, 192, 252. ) [J. C. M. )
also xvi. 14, xviii. 7), and by Macrobius (Saturn. i.
10, 12, 16). Flaccus is cited by Pliny in his
Elenchos (11. N. 1), or summary
the materials
of his Historia Nuturalis, generally (Lib. i. iii. vii.
viij. xiv. xv. xviii. xxviï. xxix. xxxiii. xxxiv.
in
Xxxv. ), and specially, but without distinguishing
COIN OF FLACCILLA.
the particular work of Flaccus which he consulted
(H. V. vii. 53, s. 54, mortes repentinae ; viii. 6, FLAMEN, Q. CLAU'DIUS, praetor B. c. 209,
elephantos in circo; ix. 23, s. 39, praeteztalos mu- the eleventh year of the second Punic war.
raenurum tergore verberatos ; xviii. 7, s. 11, far province was the Sallentine district and Tarentuin,
P. Rom. victus; xxviii. 2. § 4, Deorum evocatio ; and he succeeded M. Marcellus in the command of
xxxiii. 3. $ 19, Tarquinii Prisci aurea tunica ; 16, two legions, forming the third division of the
7. $ 36, Jovis facies minio illita). Flaccus is also Roman army, then in the field against Hannibal.
referred to by Lactantius (Instit
. i. 20), by Arno- (Liv. xxvii. 21, 22. ) He was propraetor B. c. 207,
bius (adv. Gent. i. 59), and by Isidorus (Orig. xiv. and his command was prolonged ihrough the next
8. § 33). But the work which more than any year. (xxvii. 43, xxviii. 10. ) In 207, while Flamen
other embodies the fragments of an author, whose was in the neighbourhood of Tarentum, his out-
Joss to classical antiquity is probably second only posts brought in two Numidians, the bearers of
to that of Varro, is the treatise, De Verborum Sig letters from Hasdrubal at Placentia to Hannibal
nificatione, of Festus. Festus abridged a work of at Metapontum. Flamen wrung from them the
the same kind, and with probably a similar title, secret of their being entrusted with letters and
by Verrius Flaccus, from which also some of the then despatched the Numidians, strongly guarded,
extracts in Gellius and Macrobius, and the citations with the letters unopened to the consul, Claudius
in the later grammarians, Priscianus, Diomedes, Nero. (Nero. ] The discovery of the letters saved
Charisius, and Velius Longus, are probably taken. Rome ; for they were sent to apprise Hannibal of
Of this work of Flaccus, a full account is given his brother's presence in Italy, and to arrange the
under Festus. (Sueton. IU. Gramm. 17 ; K. 0. junction of their armies.
(W. B. D. ]
Müller, Praefatio ad Pornpeium Festum, Lips. FLAMI'NIA GENS, plebeian. During the
1839. ).
(W. B. D. ] first five centuries of Rome no mention is made of
FLACCUS, VESCULA'RIUS, a Roman any member of the Flaminia Gens. The name is
eques in the confidence of the emperor Tiberius, to evidently a derivative from flumen, and seems to
whom he betrayed Scribonius Libo in A. D. 16. have originally denoted a servant of a filamen.
[Drusus, No. 10. ] It is uncertain whether the Ves- (Paul. Diac. s. vv. Flaminius Cumillus, Flaminius
cularius condemned by Tiberius in a. D. 32 be the Lictor. ). In former times the Flaminii were be-
same person, some MSS. reading Atticus, others lieved to be only a family of the Quintia gens;
Flaccus, as the cognomen. (Tac. Ann. ii
.
