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

FLACILLA FLAMININUS. 161
acn. - Flaccus was also the author of a work en- Gregory Nyssen, composed a funeral discourse
titled Saturnus, or Saturnclia (Macrob. Saturn. i. for her. All writers conspire to praise Flaccilla
4, 8), and of another, De Obsczuris Catonis, on the for her piety, and charity, and orthodoxy, and she
archaisms used by Cato the Censor: the second has been canonized in the Greek Church. (Greg,
book of which is cited by A. Gellius (xvii. 6). Be- Nyss. Orat. Funeb. pro Flaccilla; Theodoret, Hist.
sides the preceding references, Flaccus is quoted by Eccl. v. 19; Themist. De Human. Theodos. Imp.;
Gellius (v. 17, 18), who refers to the fourth book, Sozom. Hist. Eccles. vii. 6; Chron. Alex. v. PasDe Significatu Verboruzm, of Flaccus, while discuss- dhal. p. 563, ed. Bonn.; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp,
ing the difference between history and annals (see vol. v. pp. 143, 192, 252.) [J. C. M.]
also xvi. 14, xviii. 7), and by Macrobius (Saturn. i.
10, 12, 16). Flaccus is cited by Pliny in his
JElenc7hos (H. N. 1), or summary of the materials t
of his Historia Naturalis, generally (Lib. i. iii. vii.
viii. xiv; xv. xviii. xxviii. xxix. xxxiii. xxxiv.
xxxv.), and specially, but without distinguishing
the particular work of Flaccus which he consulted COIN OF FLACCILLA.
(H. N. vii. 53, s. 54, mortes repentinae; viii. 6, FLAMEN, Q. CLAU'DIUS, praetor B.C. 209,
elephlantos in circo; ix. 23, s. 39, praetextatos mu- the eleventh year of the second Punic war. His
raenarum tergore verberatos; xviii. 7, s. 1 1,far province was the Sallentine district and Tarentum,
P. Rom. vict2S; xxviii. 2. ~ 4, Deorum evocatio; and he succeeded M. Marcellus in the command of
xxxiii. 3. ~ 19, Tarquinii Prisciaurea tunica; 16, two legions, forming the third division of the
7. ~ 36, Jovisfacies 2ninio illita). Flaccus is also Roman army, then in the field against Hannibal.
referred to by Lactantius (Instit. i. 20), by Arno- (Liv. xxvii. 21, 22.) He was propraetor B.c. 207,
bius (adv. Gent. i. 59), and by Isidorus (Orzg. xiv. and his command was prolonged through the next
8. ~ 33). But the work which more than any year.(xxvii. 43, xxviii. 10.) In 207, while Flamen
other embodies the fragments of an author, whose was in the neighbourhood of Tarentum, his outloss to classical antiquity is probably second only posts brought in two Numidians, the bearers of
to that of Varro, is the treatise, De VTerborum Sip- letters from Hasdrubal at Placentia to Hannibal
nificatione, of Festus. Festus abridged a work of at Metapontum. Flamen wrung from them the
the same kind, and with probably a similar title, secret of their being entrusted with letters and
by Verrius Flaccus, from which also some of the then despatched the Numidians, strongly guarded,
extracts in Gellius and Macrobius, and the citations with the letters unopened to the consul, Claudius
in the later grammarians, Priscianus, Diomedes, Nero. [NERO.] The discovery of the letters saved
Charisius, and Velius Longus, are probably taken. Rome; for they were sent to apprise Hannibal of
Of this work of Flaccus, a full account is given his brother's presence in Italy, and to arrange the
under FESTUS. (Sueton. Ill. Gramnm. 17; K. O. junction of their armies. [W. B. D.]
Miiller, Praefatio ad Ponzpeium Festum, Lips. FLAMI'NIA GENS, plebeian. During the
1839.) [W. B. D.] first five centuries of'Rome no mention is made of
FLACCUS, VESCULA'RIUS, a Roman any member of the Flaminia Gens. The name is
eques in the confidence of the emperor Tiberius, to evidently a derivative from fiamen, and seems to
whom he betrayed Scribonius Libo in A. D. 16. have originally denoted a servant of a flamen.
[DRavss, No.10.] It is uncertain whether the Ves- (Paul. Diac. s. vv. Flamrinius Camillus, Flaminius
cularius condemned by Tiberius in A. D. 32 be the Lictor.) In former times the Flaminii were besame person, some MSS. reading Atticus, others lieved to be only a family of the Quintia gens;
Flaccus, as the cognomen. (Tac. Ann. ii. 28, vi. but this opinion arose from a confusion of the
10.) [W. B. D.] Flaminii with the Flaminini, the latter of whom
FLACILLA, or FLACCILLA, AE'LIA (in belonged to the ancient patrician Quintia gens.
Greg. Nyss. rlAKthaa, in Chron. Alex.,AiKKciX- The only family names of the Flaminia gens that
Aa), first wife of Theodosius the Great. Several we know are CHILo and FLAMMA. There is no
moderns infer from an obscure passage in Themis- evidence for the cognomen Nepos, which Orelli
tills (Orat. xvi. De Saturnino), that she was the (Onoen. Tull. ii. p. 254) gives to the Flaminius
daughter of Antonius, who was consul A. D. 382, who fell in the battle at lake Trasimenus. [L. S.]
but this is very doubtful. She appears to have FLAMINI'NUS, a family-name of the patribeen born in Spain (Claudian, LausSerenae, vs. 69), cian Quintia gens. 1. K. QUINTIUS FfAMININUS,'nd to have had a sister, the mother of Nebridius, was one of the duumviri, Who, in B. c. 216, were
who was married after..D. 388 to Salvina, daughter ordered to contract for the building of the temple of
f Gildo, theMoor. (Hieron. Epist. ad Salvin. vol. iv. Concordia, which had been vowed two years before
663, ed. Benedict.) Flaccilla had at least three by the praetor, L. Manlius. (Liv. xxii. 33.)
hildren by Theodosius, —namely, Arcadius, born 2. L. QUINTIuS FLAMININUS, was created
ibout A. D. 377, Honorius, born A.D. 384, both after- augur in B. c. 212. (Liv. xxv. 2,)
wards emperors; and Pulcheria, who was appa- 3. L. QUINTIUS FLAMININUS, a brother of the
ently born before 379, as Claudian (Laus Seren. great T. Quintius Flamininus, was curule aedile
[13, 136) intimates that Theodosius had more in B. C. 200, and the year after was invested
han one child when raised to the throne. This with the city praetorship. When his brother
ulcheria died before her mother, and Gregory Titus, in B.C. 198, undertook the war against,yssen composed a consolatory discourse upon the Philip of Macedonia, Lucius received the command
ccasion. Some have supposed that she had an- of the Roman fleet, and had to protect the coasts
ther child, Gratian, but without reason. (Ambros. of Italy., He first sailed to Corcyra, and having
e Obitu Theodos. Oratio, where see note of the met his fleet near the island of Zama, and received
enedictine editors.) Flaccilla herself died A. D. it from his predecessor, L. Apustius, he slowly pro85, at a place called Scotoumin, in Thrace, and ceeded to Malea, and thence to Peiraeeus, to-joiu
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