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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. N.
Q at the top indicates that the coin was a Quina- FUNDULUS was one of the plebeian aediles in B. C.
rius.
246. He united with his colleague, Ti. Sempronius
Gracchus, in the impeachment of Claudia, one of the
daughters of App. Claudius Caecus. [CLAUDIA, 1. ]
After encountering a strenuous opposition from the
numerous members and connections of the Claudian
gens, the aediles at length imposed a heavy fine
CFVNDAM
on Claudia ; and they employed the money in
building on the Aventine hill a temple to Liberty.
(Liv. xxiv. 16. ) Fundanius was consul in B. C.
FUNDA'NIUS. 1. M. FUNDANIUS, one of 243, and was sent into Sicily to oppose Hamilcar
the tribunes of the plebs in B. c. 195. In con- Barcas, who then occupied the town of Eryx.
junction with another tribune, L. Valerius, Fun- The Carthaginian commander sent to the Roman
danius proposed the abolition of the Oppian sump- camp to demand a truce for the interment of the
tuary law, which laid some restrictions on the slain.
Fundanius replied that Hamilcar should
dress and manners of the Roman women. Valerius rather propose a truce for the living, and rejected
and Fundanius were opposed by two members of his demand. But afterwards, when Fundanius
their own collegium, M. Brutus and T. Brutus, made a similar proposal, Hamilcar at once granted
and by one of the consuls of the year, M. Porcius it, observing that he warred not with the dead.
Cato. But the matrons supported the proposed (Gell. x. 6 ; Diod. Fragm. Vatican. p. 53. ) The
abrogation so strenuously and pertinaciously, that scholiast on Cicero's speech against Clodius and
the law was rescinded. (See vol. i. p. 638 ; Liv. Curio, gives, however, a different version of the
xxxiv. I. )
history of Fundanius. He impeached, not Claudia,
2. C. FUNDANIUS was the father of Fundania, the daughter, but P. Claudius Pulcher, the son of
the wife of M. Terentius Varro. Fundanius is Appius Caecus, for his impiety in giving battle
one of the speakers in Varro's first dialogue, De contrary to the auspices, and for his defeat at
Re Rustica ; and from the speech there assigned Drepana. [Claudius No. 13. ] When the cen-
him, he seems to have been a scholar, and ac- turies were preparing to vote, a thunder-storm in-
quainted with at least the statistics of agriculture. terrupted the proceedings. Other tribunes then
His account of the increasing luxury of the Roman interposed, and prohibited the same impeach-
country-houses may be compared with that of ment being brought forward by the same accusers
CURIUS, was cut
Maximus Rullians
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the Romans to have
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countrymen. He
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; L. Aemilius, shan
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lucius, who had falu
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took the town of B
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is one of the plebeias
I. 23. )
2 of a Roman, and a
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to Catiline, his father
son's design, overtant
be put to death (S1
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FURNIUS.
twice in one year. Fundanius and his colleague, to lay down his censorship, in accordance with the
Junius Pullus, therefore changed the form of their law. (Liv. ix. 42. )
action, and then succeeded. This account would 4. M. Furius, defended M. Valerius in the
make the tribuneship of Fundanius to fall earlier senate from the charges which the Macedonian
than the common story implies ; since Claudia was ambassadors brought against him, B. c. 201. (Liv.
not impeached until after her brother's death. xxx. 42. ) He seems to be the same as the M.
(Schol. Bob. in Cic. p. 337. ed. Orelli. )
Furius who in B. C. 200 served as legate under L.
2. M. FUNDANIU8 FUNDULUS, one of the ple Furius (No. 5) in the war against the Gaula. (Liv.
beian aediles in B. C. 213. With his colleague, xxxi. 21. )
L. Villius Tappulus, he accused before the tribes, 5. L. FURIUs, was praetor in the Gallic war,
and procured the banishment of, certain Roman which ensued immediately after the close of the
matrons, on a charge of disorderly life. (Liv. Hannibalian war, B. C. 200. He was stationed at
xxv. 2. )
(W. B. D. ) Ariminum, and as the Gauls laid siege to Cremona
FUNISULA'NUS, a person mentioned by he hastened thither with his army, and fought
Cicero in B. c. 51, and again in B. c. 49. lle owed a great battle, in which the Gauls, after having
Cicero a considerable sum of money, and was not sustained enormous losses, were routed and put to
reckoned rich. (Cic. ad Atl. v. 4, x. 15. ) flight. This victory created great joy at Rome ;
FURFA'NIUS PO'STUMUS. (Postumus. ] and, on his return, L. Furius claimed the honour
FU'RIAE. (EUMENIDES. )
of a triumph, which, after some opposition on the
FURINA, or FURRINA, an ancient Roman part of the elder senators, was granted to him.
divinity, who had a sacred grove at Rome. (Cic. (Liv. xxxi. 21, 47–49. )
de Nat. Deor. iii. 18. ) Her worship seems to have 6. C. Furius, was duumvir naralis in B. c. 178,
become extinct at an early time, for Varro (de during the war against the Istrians. He had ten
L. L. vi. 19) states that in his day her name was ships at his command, to protect the coast as far as
almost forgotten. An annual festival (Furinalia Aquileia In B. c. 170 he served as legate, and
or Furinales feriae) had been celebrated in honour was stationed in the island of Issa, with only two
of her, and a flamen (fiamen Furinalis) conducted ships belonging to the islanders. But as the Roman
her worship. (Varro de L. L. v. 84, vii. 45. ) senate feared lest Gentius, king of the Illyrians,
She had also a temple in the neighbourhood of should commence hostilities, eight ships were sent
Satricum. (Cic. ad Q. Frat. iii. 1. ) [L. S. ) to him from Brundusium. (Liv. xli. 5, xliii. 11. )
FU'RIA GENS, patrician. This was a very 7. P. FURIUS, the son of a freedman, was a
ancient gens, and in early times its name was partisan of Saturninus and Glaucia, and tribune in
written Fusia, according to the common inter- B. c. 100. After the murder of Saturninus, when
change of the letters r and 8 (Liv. iii. 4), as in the the senate wanted to recal Metellus from exile,
name Valerius and Valesius. History leaves us P. Furius opposed the senate, and refused to listen
in darkness as to the origin of the Furia gens ; but, to the entreaties of the son of Metellus, who im-
from sepulchral inscriptions found at Tusculum plored that tribune's mercy on his knees. After
(Gronov. Thesaur. vol. xii. p. 24), we see that the the expiration of his tribuneship, he was accused
name Furius was very common in that place, and before the people for his actions during his tribune-
hence it is generally inferred that the Furia gens, ship, and the infuriated multitude tore him to pieces
like the Fulvia, had come to Rome from Tusculum. in the forum. (Appian, B. C. i. 33; Dion Cass.
As the first member of the gens that occurs in Fragm. Peiresc. Nos. 105, 109, pp. 43, 45, ed. Rei-
history, Sex. Furius Medullinus, B. C. 488, is only marus. )
five years later than the treaty of isopolity which 8. Furius, a navarchus of Heracleia, was, though
Sp. Cassius concluded with the Latins, to whom the innocent, put to death by Verres. He had written
Tusculans belonged, the supposition of the Tusculan his defence, from which some passages are quoted
origin of the Furia gens does not appear at all im- by Cicero. (In Verr. v. 43. )
probable. The cognomens of this gens are Aculeo, 9. NUMERIUS FURIUs, a Roman eques of the
BIBACULUS, BROCCHUS, CAMILLUS, Crassipes, time of Cicero, but otherwise unknown. (Cic. de
Fusus, Luscus, MEDULLINUS, PaciLUs, Phi- Oral.