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174 FLAVIUS. FLAVUS.
ad Att.' vi. 1,' de. Orat. i. 41.) The collection'ofr a group of chieftains, and demanded to speak with
legal rules thus published by Flavius was called his brother, a distinguished officer in the Roman
the Jus Flavianumar; and, next to the Jus Civile army. Flavius had lost an eye in the service of
Papirianum, it was the earliest private work in Rome. The brothers, after their followers had
Roman law. The patrician jurists were grieved fallen back; conversed across the stream. On
and indignant when they saw that their advice learning the cause of his brother's disfigurement,
and intervention were rendered unnecessary by Arminius asked what had been its compensation.
this publication. In order to regain their lost powers, Flavius replied, increased pay, and the usual rethey framed new rules relating to the legis actiones, wards of valour. Arminius derided his chains and
and, in order to keep the new rules secret, invented chaplet, as the gear of a slave; and now began
a cypher (notae) to preserve them in. (Cic. pro between them an angry colloquy, which, but for
Mur. l l, where by notae some commentators under- the stream between, would have passed into blows.
stand, not.a secret notation or cypher, but the new (Tac. Ann. ii. 9.) A descendant of Flavius, named
formulae invented by the jurists). These new Italicus, became in A. D. 47 chieftain of the Cherules in another century underwent the same fate ruscans. (Ibid. xi. 16.) [W. B. D.]
with their predecessors, for in the year' B. C. 200 FLA'VIUS AVIA'NUS. [AVIANUS.]
they were made known to the people at large by FLA'VIUS CALVI'SIUS. [CALViSIUS.]
Sex. Aelius Catus, in a publication termed Jus FLA'VIUS CAPER. [CAPER.]
Aelianum. Flavius was not content with divulging FLA'VIUS CLEMENS. [CLEMENS.]
the legal mysteries through the medium of a book, FLA'VIUS DEXTER, a Spaniard, the son of
but, according to Livy, he exposed the Fasti to Pacian. He waq praetorian praefect, and a devoted
view on a whited tablet in the Forum. (Fastos advocate of Christianity. He was a contemporary
circa Forum in albo proposuit, ix. 46.) It is not of St. Jerom, who dedicated to him his book De
unlikely, from a comparison of the narrative of Viris IIlustribus. Ie Wvas said, according to Jerom,
Livy with the accounts of other writers, that the to have written a book entitled Onnimoda Hislatter exposure took place after he had been -pro- toria, but Jerom had not seen it. This book had
moted to the office of curule aedile, in consequence been long considered as lost; when, in the:end of the
of the popularity he had.acquired by the previous sixteenth century, a rumour was spread of its dispublication of his book. The first fruits of his covery, and-a work under that title was published,.popularity were his appointments to the offices of first at Saragossa, A. D. 1619, and has been since
triumvir nocturnus and triumvir coloniae deducen- repeatedly reprinted, but it is now -generally redae; and, in order'toqualify himself for the ac- garded as a forgery.. (Hieron. De Viris Illus., Praef.
ceptance of such honours, he ceased to practise his and c. 132, apud Fabric. Bibl. Eccles., with the
former business of scribe. He was afterwards notes of the editor; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p.283,
made a:senator by App. Claudius, in spite of his ed. Ox. 1740-43.) [J. C. M.]
ignominious-birth, and was elected curule aedile in FLAVIUS FELIX. [FELIX.]
the year B. c. 303. His election was carried by FLA'VIUS HERA'CLEO. [HERACLEO.]
thaforensisfactio, which had been created and had FLA'YIUS JOSE'PHUS. [JosEPHvus.],
gained strength during the censorship of App. FLA'V1US MA'LLIUS THEODO'RUS.
Claudius, and now became a distinct party in the [THEODORUS.]
state, in opposition to those who called themselves FLA'VIUS MATERNIA'NUS. [MATERthe fautores bonorum. From Licinius Macer, NIANUS.]
quoted by Livy, it would appear that he had FLA'VIUS PHILO'STRATUS. [PH1LObeen previously tribune, whereas Pliny (H. N. STRATUS.]
xxxiii. 1) states that the tribunate of the plebs FLA'VIUS PRISCUS. [PRIscus.]
was:conferred upon him in -addition to the aedile- FLA'VIUS SABI'NUS. [SABINUS.]
ship. The circumstance of his election so disgusted FLA'VIUS SCEVI'NUS. [ScEVINUS.]
the greater part of the senate and the nobles, that FLA'VIUS SU'BRIUS. [FLAvvs.]
they laid aside their golden rings and other orna- FLA'VIUS SULPICIA'NUS. [SULPICIAments (phalerae). Flavius met the contemptuous NUs.]
treatment of the nobles with equal hauteur. He FLA'VIUS VOPISCUS.'[Vopscus.]
consecrated the Temple of Concordia, on which FLAVUS, C. AL'FIUS, tribune of the plebs,,occasion the Pontifex Maximus, Cornelius Barba- B.c. 59. During Cicero's consulship Flavus seconded
tus, was obliged by the populace to take a leading him in his measures against Catiline (Cic. pro
part in the ceremony, notwithstanding his previous Plane. 42), but in his tribunate he was a zealous
declaration that none but a consul or an imperator supporter of all Caesar's acts and laws. (Cic. pro
ought, according to ancient custom, to dedicate a Sest. 3; Schol. Bob. in Sextian. p. 304, in Vatemple. When Flavius went to visit his colleague, tinian. p. 324, ed. Orelli.) This seems tohave cost
who was unwell, a party of young nobles, who Flavus the aedileship. He was, however, praetor,
were present, refused to rise on his entrance, -B. C. 54, after at least one repulse. Flavus afterwhereupon he sent for his curule chair, and, from wards appears as quaestor, or special commissioner,
hisseat of rank, looked down with triumph upon at the trial of A.. Gabinius (Cic. ad Q. Fr. iii. 1.
his jealous enemies. (Liv. ix. 46; Gell. vi. 9.) ~ 7), and at that of Cn. Plancius (Cic. pro Plane.
Valerius Maximls (ix. 3) says that he was made 17). Cicero always speaks of Flavus as an honest
praetor. (Puchta,:Cursus der Institutionen, vol. i. and well-meaning, but mistaken man. [W. B. D.]
p. 677.) [J. T. G.] FLAVUS, A'LFIUS, a rhetorician who flouFLA'VIUS, a brother of Arminius, chief of the rished-inithe reigns of Augustus and Tiberius. His
Cheruscans. In the summer of A. D. 16, the reputation attracted to his school the elder Seneca
Romans and the Cheruscans were drawn up on the [SENECA], then recently come to Rome from
opposite banks of the Weser (Visurgis), when Ar- Corduba. Flavus himself was a pupil of Cestius
minius, prince of the Cheruscans, stepped forth from Pius.[CEsTIvs], whom he eclipsed both in practice