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lead the proconsul. Flavius now went to'Grac-' of piaefectusfaiS rum. Flavius fell in th'e battle of
chus, and promising to bring about a reconciliation Philippi, and Brutus: lamented over his death.
between him and those who:had recently deserted (C. Nep. Att. 8; Cic.- ad Att. xii. 17; Pseudothe cause of the'Romans, he prevailed upon him to Brut. ad Cic. i. 6, 17; Plut. Brut. 51.)
accompany him to the spot where Mago was con- 9. C. FLAVlvS, a Roman eques of Asta, a Roman
cealed. When he arrived -there Mago riished colony in Spain. He and other equites who had
forth from his ambuscade. and Flavius immediately before belonged to the party of Pompey, went over
went over to the Carthaginians.' A fierce contest to Caesar in B.C. 45. (Bell. Hispan.. 26.) Whether
then ensued, near a place called Campi' Veteres, he is the same as the C. Flavius who is mentioned
in which Tib. Sempronius Gracchus was killed. among the enemies of Caesar Octavianus, and was4
(Liv. xxv. 16; Appian, Annib. 35; Val. Max. v. put to death. in B.C. 40, after the taking of Perusia;.1. Ext. ~ 6.) is uncertain. (Appian, B. C. v.- 49.) -IL. S.]. 3. Q. FLAVIUS, an augur who, according to CN. FLA'VIUS, the son of a freedman,'who:
Valerius Maximus (viii. 1. ~ 7), was accused be- is called by Livy Cneius, by Gellius and Pliny.
fore the people by the aedile, C. Valerius, perhaps Annius, was born in humble circumstances, but
the same who was. curule aedile in B.C. 199. became secretary to App. Claudius Caecns [CLAU(Liv. xxxi. 50, xxxii. 50.) When fourteen tribes DItUS, No. 10], and, in consequence of this con-'
had already voted against Flavius, and the latter nection, together with his own shrewdness and:
again asserted his innocence, Valerius declared eloquence, attained distinguished honours in the.
that he did not care whether the man was guilty commonwealth. He is celebrated in the annals of
or innocent provided he secured his punishment; Roman law for having been the first to divulge
and the people, indignant at such conduct, ac- certain technicalities of procedure,which previouslyquitted Flavius. had been' kept secret as the exclusive patrimony of
4. Q. FLAVIUS, of Tarquinii, in Etruria, was the pontiffs and the patricians. The relative share'
the murderer of the slave Panurgus (previous to which the pontiffs, as such, and the patricians, who
B.c. 77), who belonged to C. Fannius Chaereas, were not pontiffs, possessed in the administration
-and was to be trained as an actor, according to a and interpretation of early Roman law, cannot now:
contract entered into between Fannius Chaereas be accurately determined. Among the portions of
and Q. Roscius, the celebrated comedian. (Cic. pro law which were kept in the knowledge of a few,:
Rose. Com. 11.) were the greater part of the actus legitimi and the
5. L. FLAVIUS, a Roman eques, who gave his actiones legis. These appear to have included the
evidence against Verres. in B. C. 70. He probably whole of legal practice, the actus legitimi ordinarily
lived in Sicily, and was engaged in mercantile designating the technicalities of private legal transpursuits. (Cic. in Verr. i. 5, v. 59.) He appears actions, and the actiones legis the ceremonies of
to be the same as the L. Flavius who is mentioned judicial procedure, although this distinction is notas the procurator, that is, the agent or steward of always observed. To the hidden law of practice.
C. Matrinius in Sicily. (Cic. in Verr. v. 7.) belonged the rules of the Kalendar (Fasti), and the
6. C. FLAVIUS, a brother of L. Flavius [No. 5], greater part of the Formulae. The rules of the
and likewise a Roman eques, was recommended Kalendar determined what legal acts were to be.
by Cicero, in B. C. 46, to M'. Acilius, praetor of done, and what omitted, on particular days. The
Sicily, as an intimate friend of C. Calpurnius Piso, Formnulae related chiefly to technical pleading, or,
the late son-in-law of Cicero. (Ad Farn. xiii. 31.) in other words, to that part -of forensic practice
In some editions of Cicero's oration for Plancius which determined the mode of stating a claim and
(c. 42), we read the name of C. Flavius; but making a defence; but there were also formulae
Garatoni and Wunder have shown that this is for acts'not connected with litigation, as manci-.
only an incorrect reading for C. (Alfius) Flavus. patio, sponsio, adoptio, and formulae of this latter
7. L. FjLAvIUS was tribune of the people in kind cannot be supposed to have been so little.
B. c. 60; and on the suggestion of Pompey, he known to the people at large as forms of pleading,
brought forward an agrarian law, which was chiefly whether oral or written, may have been. Flaintended to benefit the veterans of Pompey,' who vius made himself master of the rules of the.
at the same time very warmly supported'the law. Kalendar and the foJnrmulae, either by stealing a
It was owing to the favour of Pompey, which he book in which they had been laid down and rethus acquired, that'in B. c. 59 he was elected duced to order by App. Claudius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2.
praetor for the year following. His friendship ~ 7), or by frequently consulting those who were
with Cicero seems likewise to have arisen from his able to give advice upon the subject, by noting
connection with Pompey; and Cicero strongly re- down their answers, and by applying his sagacious
commended him to his brother Quintus, who was intellect to discover the system from which such depraetor in Asia, where some bequest had been tached answers proceeded. Pliny (H.N. xxxiii. 1)-.left to Flavius. Pompey had entrusted to his care says that Flavius pursued the latter course, at the
young Tigranes of Armenia, but P. Clodius after- recommendation of' App. Claudius (ejus hortatZt
wards got possession of him, and Flavius tried in exceperat eos dies, consultando assidue sagaci in-.vain'to recover the young prlince. Cicero expressly genio). He thus picked the brains of the jurists
mentions tha't:Flavius was also a friend of Caesar, he consulted (ab Ipsis cautisjurisconsultis eorumn
and hence it is not improbable that he may be the sapientiam compilavit, Cic. pro Mar. 11). The
same as the Flavius whom Caesar, in B.C. 49, en- expressions of some writers who mention the pubtrusted with one legion and the province of Sicily. lication of Flavius seem to confine his discoveries
(Cic. ad Att. i. 18, 19, ii. 1, x. 1; ad Q. Frat. i. to the rules of the Kalendar; but there are other
2; Ascon. in Cic. Milon. p. 47, ed. Orelli; Dion passages which make it likely that he published
-Cass. xxxvii. 50, xxxviii. 50.) other rules connected with the legis actiones, espe8. C. FLAVIUS, a friend of M. Junius Brutus, cially the formulae of pleading. (Compare Liv.
whom he accompanied to Philippi in the capacity ix. 46; Macrob. Sat. i 15; Cic. de Fin. iv. 27,