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Her father perceived
or 15th, B. C. 43, in the first of the battles in the that she was suffering from something, and con-
neighbourhood of Mutina, between M. Antony trived to elicit the cause of her grief. He then
and the legions of the senate. (Cic. ad Fam. x. consoled her by telling her that shortly she should
33. )
(W. B. D. ] see the same honours and distinctions conferred
Whether the annexed coin, which bears the upon her own husband, and thereupon he consulted
name of L. Roscius Fabatus, belongs to the Fabatus with C. Licinius Stolo about the steps to be taken
for this purpose ; and L. Sextius being let into the
secret, a plot was formed of which the legislation
of C. Licinius and L. Sextius was the result. (Liv.
vi. 34 ; Zonar. vii. 24 ; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Illustr.
20. ) The improbability and inconsistency of this
story has long since been exploded, for how could
Bass
the younger Fabia have been ignorant of or startled
by the distinctions enjoyed by her sister's husband,
above mentioned, is doubtful. It represents on as her own father had been invested with the same
the obverse the head of Juno Sospita, and the re- office in B. c. 381? The story must therefore be


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considered as one of those inventions by which a on the obverse the two-faced head of Janus, and
defeated party endeavours to console itself, namely, on the reverse the prow of a ship: the latter ex-
by tracing the conqueror's actions to base and ig-
noble motives.
[L. S.
FA'BIA GENS, one of the most ancient patri-
CFABICIC
cian gentes at Rome, which traced its origin to
Hercules and the Arcadian Evander. (Ov. Fast.
ii. 237, ex Pont. iii. 3. 99; Juv. viii. 14; Plut.
Fab. Mar. 1; Paul. Dinc. 8. v. Farii, ed. Müller. )
The name is said to have originally been Fodii or
Fovii, which was believed to have been derived
from the fact of the first who bore it having in-
vented the method of catching wolves by means
of ditches ( foveae), whereas, according to Pliny, hibits on the obverse a female head, and on the
(H. N. xviii. 3), the name was derived froin faba,
a bean, a vegetable which the Fabii were said to
have first cultivated. The question as to whether
the Fabii were a Latin or a Sabine gens, is a dis-
puted point. Niebuhr and, after him, Göttling
(Gesch. der Röm. Staatsv. pp. 109, 194,) look upon
them as Sabines. But the reason adduced does
not seem satisfactory ; and there is a legend in
which their name occurs, which refers to a time
when the Sabines were not yet incorporated in the
Roman state. This legend, it is true, is related reverse Victory in a biga ; the letters Ex A. PV.
only by the pseudo-Aurelius Victor (de Orig. Gent. denote Ex Argento Publico. (Eckhel, vol. v. p.
Rom. 22); but it is alluded to also by Plutarch 209, &c. )
(Romul. 22) and Valerius Maximus (ii. 2. & 9). FABIA'NUS, PAPI'RIUS, a Roman rheto-
When Romulus and Remus, it is said, after the rician and philosopher in the time of Tiberius and
death of Amulius, offered up sacrifices in the Lu- Caligula. He was the pupil of Arellius Fuscus
percal, and afterwards celebrated a festival, which and of Blandus in rhetoric, and of Sextius in
became the origin of the Lupercalia, the two philosophy: and although much the younger of
heroes divided their band of shepherds into two the two, he instructed Albutius Silas in eloquence.
parts, and each gave to his followers a special name: (Senec. Controv. ii. prooem. pp. 134-6, ii. p. 204,
Romulus called his the Quinctilii, and Remus his ed. Bipont. ) The rhetorical style of Fabianus is
the Fabii. (Comp. Ov. Fast. ii. 361, &c. , 375, described by the elder Seneca (Controv. ii. pro-
&c. ) This tradition seems to suggest, that the em. ), and he is frequently cited in the third
Fabii and Quinctilii in the earliest times had the book of Controversiae, and in the Suasoriae. His
superintendence of the sacra at the Lupercalia, and early model in rhetoric was his instructor Arellius
hence the two colleges of the Luperci retained Fuscus ; but he afterwards adopted a less ornate
these names even in much later times, although the form of eloquence, though he never attained to per-
privilege had ceased to be confined to those two spicuity and simplicity. Fabianus soon, however,
gentes. (Cic. 'Phil. ii. 34, xiii. 15, pro Cael
. 26; quitted rhetoric for philosophy ; and the younger
Propert. iv. 26; Plut. Caes. 61. ) It was from the Seneca places his philosophical works next to those
Fabia gens that one of the Roman tribes derived of Cicero, Asinius Pollio, and Livy the historian.
its name, as the Claudia, in later times, was named (Senec. Epist. 100. ) The philosophical style of
after the Claudia gens. The Fabii do not act a Fabianus is described in this letter of Seneca's,
prominent part in history till after the establish and in some points his description corresponds
ment of the commonwealth ; and three brothers with that of the elder Seneca. (Controv. ii. pro-
belonging to the gens are said to have been invested oem. ) Both the Senecas seem to have known, and
with seven successive consulships, from B. C. 485 certainly greatly esteemed Fabianus. (Cf. Con-
to 479. The house derived its greatest lustre from troo. iii
. prooem. 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
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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.