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of the triumviral provinces, he appointed Fango his gereianes of Titinius, and had some transactions
prefect. But his title iii Numidia was opposed by with C. Verres in B. C. 84. (Cic. in Verr. i. 49.)
T. Sextius, the prefect of M. Antonius. They ap- 3. M. FANNIUS, was one of the judices in the
pealed to arms, and after mutual defeats and victo- case (Quaestio de Sicariis) of Sex. Roscius of
ries, Fango was driven into the hills that bounded Ameria, in B. C. 80. (Cic. pro Sex.;Rosc. 4; Schol.
the Roman province to the north-west. There, Gronov. ad Roscian. p. 427, ed. Orelli.)
mistaking the rushing of a troop of wild buffaloes 4. L. FANNIUS and L. Magius served in the
fora night attack of:Numidian-horse, he slew him- army of the legate Flavius Fimbria, in the war
self. (Dion Cass. xlviii. 22' 24; Appian, B. C. against Mithridates, in B. c. 84; but they deserted
v. 26.) In Cicero's epistles to Atticus (xiv. 10.), and went over to Mithridates, whom they perFrangones is probably a misreading for Fangones, suaded to enter into negotiations with Sertorius in
and refers to C. Fuficius. [W. B. D.], Spain, through whose assistance he might obtain
FA'NNIA. 1. A woman of Minturnae, of bad the sovereignty of Asia Minor and the neighbourrepute. C. Titinius married her, nevertheless, ing countries. Mithridates entered into the scheme,
because she had considerable property. Soon after and senlt the two deserters, in B. C. 74, to Sertorius
he- repudiated her for her bad conduct, and at the to conclude a treaty with him.- Sertorius promised
same time attempted to rob her of her dowry. C. Mithridates Bithynia, Paphlagonla, Cappadocia,
Marius, who was to decide between them, requested and Gallograecia, as rewards' for assisting him
Titinius to restore the dowry; but when this was against the Romans. Sertorius at once sent M.
refused, C. Marius pronounced sentence, declaring Varius to serve Mithridates as general, and L.
the woman guilty of adultery, but compelling her Fannius and L. Magius accompanied him as his
husband to restore her dowry, because he had mar- councillors.- On their advice:Mithridates began
ried the woman although he knew what she was. his third war against the Romans. In consequence
The woman gratefully remembered the service thus of their desertion and treachery' Fannius and
done to her, and, when-Marius, in B. C. 88, on his Magius were declared public enemies by the seescape from the marshes,- came to Minturnae, nate. We afterwards find Fannius commanding a
Fannia received him into her house, and tdok care detachment of the army of Mithridates against
of him as well as she could. (Val. Max. viii. 2. Lucallus. (Appian, lIitlhrid. 68; Plut. Sertor. 24;
3 3; Plut. Alap. 38, who erroneously calls her hus- Oros. vi. 2, Cic. in Verr.. i. 34; Pseudo-Ascon.
band Tinnius.) in Verrin. p. 183, ed. Orelli.)
2. The second wife of Helvidius Priscus. In 5. C. FANNIUS, one of the persons who signed
the reign iof Nero, when her husband was exiled, the accusation which was brought against P. Closhe accompanied him to Macedonia. In the reign dins in B. c. 61. A few years later, B. c. 59, he
of Vespasian she accompanied him a second time was mentioned by L. Vettius as an accomplice in
into exile. After the death of her husband she the alleged conspiracy against'Pompey.. (Cic. ad
persuaded Herennius Senecio to write' the life of Att. ii. 24.) Orelli, in his Onomasticon, treats
Helvidius Priscus. The biographer was put to him as identical with the C. Fannius who was
death by Domitian, and Fannia was punished for tribune in B. C. 59; but if this were correct,
her suggestion by being sent' into exile. (Plin. Cicero (I. c.) would undoubtedly have described
Eoist. i. 5, vii. 19; Suet. Vesp. 15.)' [L. S.]' him as tribune. He may, however, be the same
FA'NNIA GENS, plebeian. No members of as the Fannius who was sent in B. C. 43 by M.
it are mentioned in Roman -history previous to the Lepidus as legate to Sex. Pompeilus, and who, at
second century B. C., and the first of them who ob- the close of the same year, was outlawed, and took
tained the consulship was C. Fannius Strabo, in B. C. refuge with Sex. Pompeius in Sicily. In B. c. 36,
161. The only family-name which occurs in this when Sex. Pompeius had gone to Asia, Fannius
gens under the republic is STRABO: the others are and others deserted him, and went over to M.
mentioned without a cognomen. There are a few Antonius. (Cic. Philispp. xiii. 6; Appian, B. C. iv.
coins belonging to this gens: one of them is given 84, v. 139.)..
under CRITONIJS; another figured below bears on 6. C. FANNIUS, tribune of the people in B. C.
59, when C. Julius Caesar and Bibulus were consuls. Fannius allowed himself to be made use of
by Bibulus in opposing the lex agrar'ia of J.
Caesar. He belonged to the party of Pompey,
and in B. C. 49 he went as praetor to Sicily. The
fall of Pompey in the year after seems to have
brought about the fall of Fannius also. (Cic. pro
Sext. 53, in Vatin. 7, ad Att. vii. 15, viii. 15,
xi. 6.)
the obverse a head of Pallas, and on the reverse 7. FANNIUS, one of the commanders under CasVictory in a quadriga, with M. FAN.C. CF. [L.S.] sius, in B. c. 42. (Appian, B. C. iv. 72.) He
FA'NNIUS. 1. C. FANNIUS was tribune of may be the same as the C. Fannius mentioned
the people in B. C. 187. When L. Scipio Asiati- by Josephus (Ant. Jud. xiv. 10. ~ 15), who, howcus was sentenced to pay a large sum of money. to ever, describes him as orpar$myds v'JraTros, the last
the treasury, the praetor, Q. Terentius Culleo, de- of which words is probably incorrect.
dlared, that he would arrest and imprison Scipio, if 8. C. FANNIUS, a contemporary of the younger
he refused to pay.the money.- Onthat occasionC. Pliny, who was the author of a work on the
Fannius declared in his own name and that of his deaths of persons-executed or exiled by Nero, under
colleagues (with the exception of Tib. Gracchus), the title of Exitus Occisorum ant Relegatorum. It
that they would not:hinder the praetor in carrying consisted of three books, but more would have been
his threat into effect. (Liv. xxxviii. 60.)' added if Fannius had lived longer. The work
2. C. FANNIUS, a Roman eques, is called aJfcater seems to have been very popular at the time, both