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I45) tells us that Fortuna Virilis was worshipped happened about A. n. 106, since his seat in the
by women, who prayed to her that she might pre- college was bestowed upon the younger Pliny soon
serve their charms, and thus enable them to please after that period. From an epigram in Martial we
their husbands. Her surnames, in general, express might conclude that he was twice elevated to the
either particular kinds of good luck or the per- consulship; but since his name does not appear in
sons or classes of persons to whom she granted the Fasti, we are unable to determine the dates,
it. Her worship was of great_ importance also at although, as stated above, we may infer that this
Antium and Praeneste,'where her sortes or oracles honour was bestowed upon him, for the first time
were very celebrated. (Diet. of Ant. s. v. Oracu- at least, before his journey to Britain, since the
lum; Hartung, die Relig. d. Rmn. vol. ii. p. 233, generals despatched to command that province
&c. Comp. TYCHE.) [L. S.] were generally consulars.
FORTUNATIA'NUS, ATI'LIUS, a Latin Two works undoubtedly by this author are still
grammarian, author of a treatise (Ars) upon pros- extant:-1. Strategematicon Libri IV. or, if we obody, and the metres of Horace, which will be serve the distinction drawn by the author, Stratefound in the collection of Putschius. The work is gematicoaz Libri III. and Strategicon Liber unus,
extremely defective and in great confusion, the forming a sort of treatise on the art of war, dedifferent parts being in many places jumbled toge- veloped in a collection of the sayings and doings
ther in defiance of all order or arrangement. For- of the most renowned leaders of antiquity. The
tunatianus cannot be later than the fifth century, anecdotes in the first book relate to the various consince he is quoted by Cassiodorus, and his diction, tingencies which may precede a battle, those in
as exhibited in an epistle dedicatory addressed to the second to the battle itself and its results, those
a young senator (p. 2685, ed. Putsch.), is very in the third to the forming and raising of sieges,
pure and graceful. [W. R.] while those in the fourth, or the Strategica, comFORTUNATIA'NUS, CU'RIUS or CHI'- prehend various topics connected with the internal
RIUS- a Roman lawyer, flourished about the discipline of an army and the duties of the commiddle of the fifth century after Christ, a short time mander. This compilation, which presents no parbefore Cassiodorus, by whom he is quoted. He ticular attractions in style, and seems to have been
drew up a compendium of technical rhetoric, by formed without any very critical investigation of the
way of question and answer, in three books, com- authorities'from which some of the stories are derived,
piled from the chief ancient authorities both Greek must have been published about A. D. 84, soon after
and Latin, under the title Curii Fortunatiani Con- the return of Frontinus from Britain, for we find
sulti Artis Rhetoricae Scholicae Libri tres, a produc- Domitian named more than once with the title of
tion which at one period was held in high esteem Germanicus, together with frequent allusions to the
as a manual, from being at once comprehensive and German war, but no notice whatsoever of the Dacian
concise. or other subsequent campaigns.
This writer must not be confounded with the II De Aquaeductibus Urbis Romae Libri II., a
Curius Fortunatianus who, as we are told by Capi- treatise, composed, as we have already pointed out,
tolinus (Max. et Balb. 4), composed a history of after the year 97. The language is plain and un*the reign of Maximus and Balbinus, nor with pretending, while the matter forms a valuable conFortunatianus, an African, bishop of Aquileiaj tribution to the history of architecture.
mentioned by St. Jerome ( de Viris Ill. 97) as a We learn from the preface to the Strategematica,
commentator on the Gospels. that Frontinus had previously written an essay De
The Editio Princeps of the Ars Rhetorica was Scientia l'Militari, and Aelian speaks of a disquiprinted at Venice, fol. 1523, in a volume contain- sition on the tactics employed in the age of Homer,
ing Rufinianus and other authors upon the same both of which are lost.
subject; a second edition, revised by P. Nannius, The Editio Princeps of the Strategematica was
appeared at Louvain, 8vo. 1550; a third, by Ery- printed by Euch. Silber, 4to. Rom. 1487. The
thraeus, at Strasburg, 8vo. 1568. The piece will best editions are that of F. Oudendorp, 8vo. Lug.
be found also in the " Rhetores Latini Antiqui," Bat. 1731, reprinted, with additions and corof Pithoau, Paris, 4to. 1599, p. 38-78. [W. R.] rections, by Con. Oudendorp, 8vo. Lug. Bat. 1779,
FO'SLIA GENS, patrician, of which only one and that of Schwebel, 8vo. Lips. 1772.
family name, FLACCINATOR, appears in history. There is an early translation into our own lanThe family was early extinct. [W. B. D.] guage dedicated to Henry VIII., entitled " The
FRANGO. [FANGO.] Stratagems, Sleyghtes, and Policies of Warre,
FRONTI'NUS, SEX. JULIUS, of whose gathered together by S. Julius Frontinus, and
origin and early career we know nothing, first ap- translated into English by Rycharde Morysine,"
pears in history under Vespasian, at the beginning 8vo. Lond. 1539; and another by M.D. A.B. D.
Af A. D. 70, as praetor urbanus, an office which he 12mo. Lond. 1686, to which is added " a new colspeedily resigned in order to make way for Do- lection of the most noted stratagems and brave exmitian, and it is probable that he was one of the ploits of modern generals; with a short account of
-onsules szectiin A. D. 74. In the course of the the weapons offensive and defensive, and engines
Following year he succeeded Cerealis as governor commonly used in war." There are also translaAf Britain, where he distinguished himself by the tions into German by Schdffer, fol. Meyntz, 1582,:onquest of the Silures, and maintained the Roman by Motschidler, 8vo. Wittemberg, 1540; by
Dower unbroken until superseded by Agricola in Tacius, fol. Ingolst. 1542, including Vegetius, reD. D. 78. In the third consulship of Nerva printed fol. Frank. 1578; and by Kind, 8vo. Leips.'A. D. 97) Frontinus was nominated curator 1750, along with Polyaenus: into French by
squarum, an appointment never conferred, as lie Remy Rousseau, about 1514; by Wolkir, fol.
iimself informs us, except upon the leading men of Paris, 1536, along with Vegetius; by Perrot, 4to.;he state (de Aq. 1; comp. 102); he also enjoyed Paris, 1664; and anonymous, 8vo. Paris, 1772:
he high dignity of augur, and his death must have into Italian by Fr. Lucio Durantino, 8vo. Vineg.
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