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FENESTELLA. — FEROX. -1 4V
point -so indisputably, that we are surprised that i. 6;- I-Iieron. i-n Euseb. CIron. 01; excix; Diomnedes,
such an error should have escaped -the keen eyes of p. 361. ed. Putsch; Non. Marcell. ii. s. v. Prae-.Erasmus and other great scholars. Since that sente, iii. s. v. Reticulum, iv. s. V. Rumor; Madvig.
time a vast number of editions have been pub- de Ascon. Ped. &c. p..64.) [W. R.]
lished, a full account of which will be found in FE'NIUS RUFUS. [RvFvs.].
Funccius, Schinemann, and Biihr. For general FERE'TRIUS, a surname of Jupiter, which is
purposes, that of Jac. Gronovius (8vo. Lug. Bat. probably derived from ferire, to strike; for persons
1707) forming one of the series of Variorum who' took an oath called upon Jupiter, if they
Classics; that of Lindner (8vo. Longosal. 1760) swore-falsely, to strike them as they struck the
reprinted, with a preface by Ernesti (ibid. 1773); victim they sacrificed to him. (Fest. s. v. Lapidem
and that of Muralto, with a preface, by Orelli Silicem.) Others derived it fromferre, because he'(8vo. Turic. 1836), wilL-be found the most useful. was the giver of peace, or because people dedicated
The German translations by J. G. Russwurm (4to. (ferebant) to him spolia opima. (Fest. s. v. FereIHamb. 1824), and by J. H. B. Liibkert (8vo. tries; Liv. i. 10; Propert. iv. 10. 46; comp.
Leip. 1836), may be consulted with advantage. JUPITER.) [L. S.]
In illustration, we may read the essay of Bal- FERO'NIA, an ancient Italian divinity, who
duinus, which is appended to the edition of Gro- originally belonged to the Sabines and Faliscans,
novius; J. D. Van Hoven, Epistola ad Geri. and was introduced by them among the Romans.
JIlleermann, 4to. Camp. 1766, reprinted in Lind- Greek writers, as usual, describe her as of Greek
ner's edition of ~1773; H. Meier, Comment. de origin. Dionysius (ii. 49) thus relates, that the
Mlinucio Felice (8vo. Turic. 1824); and the re- Lacedaemonians who emigrated at the time of
marks prefixed to the translation of Russwurm. Lycurgus, after long wanderings (QepdOLevot), at
(Hieronym. de Viris Ill. 58, Ep. ad Magnum, length landed in Italy, where they founded a town
Apolog. ad Pammuach., Epitaph. Nepot.; Lactant. Feronia, and built a temple to the goddess Fero1)iv. Instit. i. 9, v. 1.; Dupin, Bibl. Eccles. vol. i. p. nia. But, however this may be, it is extremely
117; Funccius, de L. L. Veyeta Senectute, x. ~ 10- difficult to form a definite notion of the nature of
16; Le Nourry, Apparat. ad Bibl. Patr. vol. ii. diss. this goddess. Some consider her to have been
i.; Schrhck, Kirchengescht. vol. iii. p. 417; Schiine- the goddess of liberty, because at Terracina slaves
mann, Bibl. Patr. Lat. iii. ~ 2; Biihr, Gesch. der were emancipated in her temple (Serv. ad Aen.
Romiscl. Litt. Suppl. Band ii. Abtheil. ~ 18- viii. 465), and because on one occasion the freed21.) [W. R.] men at Rome collected a sum of money for the
FELIX, SEXTI'LIUS, was stationed, A.D. 70, purpose of offering it to her as a donation. (Liv.
on the frontiers of Raetia by Antonius Primus to xxii. 1.) Others look upon her as the goddess of
watch the movements of Porcius Septiminus, pro- commerce and traffic, because these things were
curator of that province under Vitellius. Felix carried on to a great extent during the festival
remained in Raetia until the following year, when which was celebrated in honour of her in the town
he assisted in quelling an insurrection of the Tre- of Feronia, at the foot of mount Soracte. But
viri. (Tac. Hist. iii. 5, iv. 70.) [W. B. D.] commerce was carried on at all festivals at which
FENESTELLA, a Roman historian, of con- many people met, and must be looked upon as a
siderable celebrity, who flourished during the reign natural result of such meetings rather than as their
of Augustus, and died, according to the Eusebian cause. (Dionys. iii. 32; Strab. v. p. 226; Liv.
Chronicle, A.D. 21, in the 70th year of his age. xxvi. 11, xxvii. 4; Sil. Ital. xiii. 84.) Others
His great work, entitled Annales, frequently quoted again regard her as a goddess of the earth or the
by Asconius, Pliny, A. Gellius, and others, ex- lower world, and as akin to Mania and Tellus,
tended to at least twenty-two books, as appears partly because she is said to have given to her son
from a reference in Nonius, and seems to have three souls, so that Evander had to kill him thrice
contained very minute, but not always perfectly before he was dead (Virg. Aen. iii. 564), and
accurate, information with regard to the internal partly on account of her connection with Soranus,
affairs of the city. The few fragments preserved whose worship strongly resembled that of Feronia.
relate almost exclusively to events subsequent to [SORANUS.] Besides the sanctuaries at Terracina
the Carthaginian wars; but whether the narrative and near mount Soracte, she had others at Trebula,
reached from the foundation of Rome to the down- in the country of the Sabines, and at Luna in
fall of the republic, or comprehended only a portion Etruria. (Comp. Serv. ad Aen. xi. 785; Varro,
of that space, we have no means of determining. de L. L. v. 74; Miiller, die Etrusker, vol. i. p. 302,
WVe are certain, however, that it embraced the vol. ii. p. 65, &c.) [L. S.]
greater part of Cicero's career. In addition to the FEROX, JU LIUS. [FERox, URSEIUS.]
Annales, we find a citation in Diomedes from FEROX, URSEIUS, a Roman jurist, who pro"Fenestellam in libro Epitomarum secundo," of bably flourished between the time of Tiberius and
which no other record remains; and St. Jerome Vespasian, and ought not to be confounded (as
speaks of Carmina as well as histories; but the Panziroli has done, De claris Interpr. Juris. 38)
Archaica, ascribed in some editions of Fulgentius with the Julius Ferox who was consul, A. D. 100,
to Fenestella, must belong, if such a work ever in the reign of Trajan (Plin. Ep. ii. 11, vii. 13),
existed, to some writer of a much later epoch. and who is mentioned in an ancient inscription
A treatise, De Sacerdotiis *et Magistratibus (Grater, vol. i. p. 349) as curator alvei et riparum
Romanorum Libri II., published at Vienna in Tiberis et cloacarum. The jurist Ferox was certainly
1510, under the name of Fenestella, and often re- anterior to the jurist Julianus, who, according to
printed, is, in reality, the production of a certain the Florentine Index to the Digest, wrote four
Andrea Domenico Fiocchi, a Florentine jurist of books upon Urseius. In the Collatio Legun. Mothe fourteenth century. (Plin. H. N. viii. 7, ix. 17, saicarum et Romanarum (xi. 7), inserted in the
35, xv. 1, xxx. 11; Senec.- Epist. 108; Suet. collections of Antejustinian law, is an extract front
Vit. Terent.; Gell. xv. 28; Lactant. de Falsa Reld. Ulpian, citing a tenth book of Urseius; but what
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