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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. JUNIA FADILLA, a descendant of M. Antowho 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. Maximin. jun. 1.) [W. R.]
seven days. The answer of Facundus consisted FA'DIUS, the name of a family of the municiof extracts from his unfinished work; but as, from pium of Arpinum. Some of the members of it
the haste and excitement under which it was pre- settled at Rome, while' others remained in their
pared, and the inaccuracy of some of its quotations, native place. The Fadii appear in history about
it did not satisfy its author, he afterwards finished the time of Cicero, but none of them rose to any
and published his larger work, as being a more higher office than the tribuneship. The only cogmoderate and better arranged defence of the coun- nomens that occur in the family, are GALLUS and
cil. Vigilius having been induced to approve of RUFUS. The following have no surnames:the condemnation of Ibas, Theodore, and Theodo- l. C. or Q. FADIUS, for in one of the two pasret, though with a reservation of the authority of sages in which he is mentioned, he is called Caius,
the council of Chalcedon, Facundus, with the bishops and in the other Quintus. He was a libertinus,
of Africa and of some other provinces, refused to and seems to have possessed considerable wealth,
have communion with him and with those who for his daughter, who was married to M. Antonius,
joined in the condemnation; and being persecuted is called a rich woman. (Cic. Plalipp. ii. 2, ad Att.
for this, he was obliged to conceal himself. During xvi. 11.)
this concealment, at the request of some persons 2. L. FADIUS, was aedile in his native place of
whom he does not name, he wrote his reply to Arpinum, in B. c. 44. (Cic. ad Att. xv., 15, 17,
Mocian, a scholasticus or pleader, who had written 20.)
against the decision of the council of Chalcedon. 3. SEX. FADIUS, a disciple of the physician
Nothing further is known of Facundus. Two Nicon, but otherwise unknown. (Cic. ad Faro.
of his writings, viz. Pro Defensione Trimn Capitu- vii. 20. ) [L. S.]
loraum Libri XII.; and Contra 1M1ocianuzm Liber, FADUS, CUS'PIUS, a Roman eques of the
were published with notes by Sirmond (8vo. time of the Emperor Claudius. After the death of
Paris. 1629). These works, with Sirmond's King Agrippa, in A..D. 44, he was appointed by
notes, are reprinted in the edition of the Claudius procurator of Judaea. During his admiworks of Optatus, by Philippus Priorius, and in nistration peace was restored in the country, and
the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. x. ed. Lyon, A. D. the only disturbance was created by one Teudas,
1677, and vol. xi. ed. Venice, by Gallandius, who came forward with the claim of being a proA. D. 1765. Another work of Facundus, entitled phet. But he and his followers were put to death
Epistola Fidei Catholicae in Defensione Triu7 M Capi- by the command of Cuspius Fadus. He was suctulor&7m, was first published in the Spicilegium of ceeded in the administration of Judaea by Tiberius
D'Achery (vol. iii. p. 106 of the first edition, or Alexander. (Joseph. Ant. xix. 9, xx. 5. ~ 1, Bell.
vol. iii. p. 307. ed. of 1723), chiefly with the view Jud. ii. 11. ~ 5; Tac. Hist. v. 9; Zonar. xii. 11;
of showing that Facundus continued out of com- Euseb. Hist. Eccl. ii. 11.) [L. S.]
mullion with the Pope and the Catholic Church, and FALACER, or, more fully, divus pater Falace,,
so of weakening his authority: for the Protestants is mentioned by Varro (de L. L. v. 84, vii. 45) as
had cited a passage from his Defensio Trium Capi- an ancient and forgotten Italian divinity, whom
taulorm against the doctrine of the Real Presence. Hartung (Die Rel. d. RMm. ii. p. 9) is inclined to
This letter is reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patruzm consider to be the same as Jupiter, since falanduam,
of Gallandius. Cassiodorus (Eaos. in Psaln according to Festus, was the Etruscan name for
cxxxviii. sub fin.) speaks of two books of Fa- "heaven." [L. S.]
cundus De duabus Naturis Domini C/hristi. By' FALA'NIUS, a Roman eques, one of the first
some scholars he is thought to mean the'two victims of the public accusers in the reign of Tibefirst books of the Defensio; but Fabricius thinks rius. He was charged, A. D. 15, with profaning
that he speaks of a separate work of Facundus now the worship of Augustus Caesar, first by admitting
lost. (Facundus, works as above; Victor Tunnu- a player of bad repute to the rites, and secondly by
nensis, COhronicon; Isidor. Hisp. De Scrip. Eccles. selling with his garden a statue of the deceased
c. 19.; Baronius, 2Annal. ad Ann. 546, 547, emperor. Tiberius acquitted Falanius, remarking
and Pagius, Critic. in Baron.; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. that the gods were quite able to take care of their
p. 520; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 543, own honour. (Tac. Ann. i. 73; Dion Cass. lvii.
and'Bibl. Med. et Inf. Latin. vol. ii. p. 140, 24.) [W. B. D.]
Padua, 1754; Galland. Biblioth. Patrum, vol. xi., P. FALCI'DIIJS, tribune of the plebs in B.c.
Proleg. c. 13.) [J. C. M.] 40, was the author of the Lex Falcidia de Legatis,
FA'DIA. 1. A daughter of Q. Fadius Gallus. which remained in force in the sixth century A. D.,
She was fraudulently robbed of her paternal in- since it was incorporated by Justinian in the In.
heritance by P. Sextilius Rufus. (Cic. de Fin. ii. stitutes. It is remarkable that Dion Cassius
17, &c.) (xlviii. 33). mistakes its import. He says that the
2. A daughter of C. or Q. Fadius, married to heres, if unwilling to take the hereditas, was
the triumvir M. Antonius, at the time when he allowed by the Falcidian law to refuse it on taking
was yet a young man. She bore him several a fourth part only. But the Lex Falcidia enacted
children. (Cic. Philipp. ii. 2, xiii. 10, ad Att. xvi. that at least a fourth of the estate or property of
11.) [L. S.] the testator should be secured to the heres scriptus.
FADILLA. 1. AURELIA FADILLA, a daughter (Diet. of Ant. s. v. Legatum.) The Falcidius
of Antoninus Pius and Faustina. (Eckhel, vol. vii. mentioned by Cicero in his speech for the Manip. 38.) lian law (19), had the praenomen Caius. He
2. FADILLA, a daughter of M. Aurelius and the had been tribune of the people and legatus, but in
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