A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

132 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 author 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. ID.] bears the name of ponte quattro capi. On one of
FABI'LIUS, or FABILLUS, a professor of the arches we read the inscription: " L. FABRICIUs,
literature in the third century A. D., who instructed C. F. CUR. VIAR. FACIUNDUM COERAVIT IDEMQUE
the younger Maximinus in the Greek language, PROBAVIT;" and on another arch there is the followand was the author of several Greek epigrams, 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
Mamimin. Jun. 1.) [W. B. D.] M. Lollius. The scholiast on. Horace (Sat. ii. 3,
FA'BIUS DOSSENNUS. [DossENNUS.] 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.,:Rnm. A4terthiner, vol. i. p. 699.)
FA'BIUS LABEO. [LABEO.] There is also a coin bearing the name of L. FabriFA'BIUS MELA. [MELA.] cius. (Eckhel, Doctr. Alum. vol. v. p. 210.)
FA'BIUS PLANCI'ADES FULGE'NTIUS. 3. Q..FFABRiQcvs as tribune ofi the people in
[FULGENTIUS.] B. C. 57, and well disposed towards Cicero, who
FA'BIUS PRISCUS. [PRIscvs.] was then living in exile. - He brought before the
FA'BIUS RU'STICUS. [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. [SANGA.] the attempt was frustrated by P. Clodius by armed
FA'BIUS, VERGILIA'NUS. [VERGI- force. (Cic. ad Qu. Frat. i. 4, post Red. in Sen.
LIANUS.] 8, pro Sext. 35, &c., pro Milon, 14.) In the
FABRI'CIA 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, FA'BIUS, 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 (I. 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 supis 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 Hermitatalent, or, what is more probable, that being nensis," from the see which he held in the prostrangers, 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. ri. 544) published an edict condemning, 1st, 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, certhe only cognomen of' the Fabricii that we meet tain: writings of Theodoret, bishop. of Cyrus or
with under the republic: inf the time of the em- Cyrrus; and anathematising all who approved of
pire we find a Fabricius with' thecognomen VEX- 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
FABRI'CIUS. 1. C. and L. FABRICIUS (held A. D. 451),: at which the prelates whose senbelonged 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 Theothey 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. his brethren (apparentlyv 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