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

1 8: FUFIDIUS. FULCINIUS.
until the seventh century of the city; and their inference is not conclusive, for the question on
only cognomens are CALENUS and GEMINUS, the which Nerva differed from Fufidius may have been
former of which is probably derived from the town disputed in the schools, and the opinion subselof Cales in Campallia. It is not improbable that quently selected by Fufidius may have been conthe whole Fufia gens originally came from Cam- troverted by Nerva before Fufidius wrote. In the:pania. [L. S.] passage in question, which relates to manumissions,
FUFI'CIUS FANGO. [FANGO.] Fufidius speaks of a causaprobationis, and therefore
FUFI'DIUS. -1. L. FUFIDIUS, a pleader of Maiansius concludes that he wrote after the date
causes in some repute at Rome, about B. C. 1 15- of the Lex Aelac Sentia, which was passed in the
105. M. Aemilius Scaurus the elder addressed beginning of the reign of Augustus. (Compare
to him an autobiography in three books. (Cic. Gaius, i. 18, 38, 39, 40.) In the Institutes of:Brut. 30; Plin. H. N. xxiii. 1. s. 6.) Gaius (ii. 154), occurs the ambiguous expression,
2. FUFIDIUS, propraetor of Baetica in the first "Q uamquam apud Fufidium Sabino placeat." Unyear of the Sertorian war. Sertorius defeated him der Ferox [FEROX] we have endeavoured to' exin B. C. 83 or 82. (Sall. Fragm. i. 15, 52, ed. plain the meaning of this expression. It seems to
-Gerlach, vol. i.) In the speech which Sallust imply that a work passing under the name of Fufiascribes- to M. Aemilius Lepidus against Sulla, dius, contains an opinion of Sabinus, but it does
Fufidius is called "'a base slave-girl, the dishonour not enable us to determine whether the work exof the honours" which Sulla conferred on him. hibited Fufidius:as commenting upon or citing
(Fragnz. xv. p. 218.) In Florus (iii. 21) Furfi- Sabinus, or whether it was an original treatise of
dius, who admonished Sulla, during the proscrip- Fufidius, with notes by Sabinus. In Dig. 42. tit.
tion, "to spare some that he might have some to 5. s. 29, Fufidius is quoted by Paulus on a nice
rule," was probably Fufidius, and in Plutarch (Sell. question:-When a man in whose honour a public'31, comp. id. Sert. 25, 27), for Aufidius, a flatterer statue has been erected becomes insolvent, does the
of Sulla,' to whom somewhat similar advice is ownership of the statue pass under a sale of his
*attributed, should be read, according to Sintenis, goods for the benefit of his creditors?:the last editor of Plutarch, Fufidius. Cujas'(Observ. i. 9) claims the honour of having
S. FUFIDIUS, a Roman Eques, whom L. Piso, been the first to rescue the name of this jurist from
when proconsul of Macedonia, assigned to his cre- obscurity, and is inclined to identify him with- the:ditors at Apollonia. (Cic. in Pison. 35.) According L. Fufidius mentioned above [No. 1], but this L.
to Cicero, this assignment was the more shameful, Fufidius was certainly earlier than our jurist.;because these very Apolloniates had procured by a (Maiansius, ad XXX Ictorum Frag. Comment. vol.
bribe of 200 talents to Piso remission or delay of ii. p. 273-287.) [J. T. G.]
their own debts. Cicero (ad Att. xi. 13.) speaks FUFI'TIUS, an architect, was the first Roinan,of co-heirs of Fufidius, and of a Fufidian estate (ib. writer on architecture. (Vitruv. vii. -Praef. ~ 14,
14 and 15); and a farm was purchased by one where, however, the reading of the name is very
Fufidius for Q. Cicero. (Cic. ad Q. Fr. iii. 1.) But doubtful: see Schneider's note.) [P. S.]
in-the absence of their praenomnina it is impossible FU'FIUS, a Roman modeller, whose name is'to identify these Fufidii. known by a statue in burnt clay, discovered near
4. Q. FuFIDIUS, was a native of Arpinum, and Perugia, in 1773. It is two feet high, representof equestrian rank at Rome. He was one of three ing a household god, covered with a dog-skin, and
commissioners sent, A. D. 46, by the municipality has on its base the inscription, C. FUFIUS FINXIT.
of Arpinum to collect their rents in Cisalpine Gaul. (Winckelmann,- Briefe ib. d. neuest. Herculan.
[FAUCIUS.]'Fufidius married a daughter of M. entdeck. ~ 29, Fea's note.) [P. S.]
Caesius, and was tribune of a legion stationed in FU'FIUS. 1. C. and M. FUFIUS, two Roman
Cilicia during Cicero's proconsulship. Cicero re- equites mentioned by Cicero (pro Flacc. 20); but
commends Fufidius to M. Brutus. (Cic. ad Fam. otherwise unknown.
xiii. 11.) 2. Q. FUFIUS, an intimate friend of Cicero, who
A wealthy man of this name is mentioned by recommended him in B. C. 50 to C. Mummius.
Horace. (Sat. i. 2. 12.) [W. B. D.] (Cic. ad Fam. xiii. 3.)
FUFI'DIUS, a jurist, who probably lived be- 3. L. FvFIUS, a Roman orator, who was an
tween the time of Vespasian and Hadrian. We elder contemporary of Cicero. About B. C. 98 he'do not subscribe to the conjecture of Maiansius, accused M'. Aquillius of extortion, which he had
who believes that he may have been the same committed in his consulship in Sicily B. C. 101.
person with the L. Fufidius Pollio, who was consul On that occasion L. Fufius evinced great zeal and
in A. D. 166. He was not later than Africanus, industry; but the accused, who was defended by
and appears not to have been earlier than Atilici- M. Antonius, was acquitted. The oratory of
nus, a contemporary of Proculus, for, in Dig. 34. Fufius seems to have been of a very vehement and
tit. 2. s. 5, Africanus seems to quote an opinion of passionate character, and the man himself of a very
Atilicinus from the second book of Q1eaestiones of quarrelsome nature; and this he retained even in
Fufidius. Zimmern, however, must have under- his advanced age, when he had nearly lost his
stood this passage differently, for he draws from it voice. (Cic. de Orat. i. 39, ii. 22, iii. 13; de O7.
the inference that Fufidius was earliesr than Atili- ii. 14; Brut. 62.)'cinus. In Dig. 40. tit. 2. s. 25, Gaius quotes an 4. M. FUFIus, a friend of Milo, who was acopinion of Fufidius (for such is the true reading, companied by him at the time when he murdered
not Aufidius, as some editions read, following Ha- P. Clodius. (Ascon. in Cic. Milon. p. 33. ed.'loander in his departure from the Florentine manu- Orelli.)
script of the Pandects). To the opinion of Fufidius 5. Q. FUFIUS, a Roman eques, mentioned by Ci.
Gaius opposes that of Nerva, the son, and adopts cero (PhilAii. 16), but otherwise unknown. [L. S.]
the latter. Hence Nerva, the son, is thought by FULCI'NIUS, a name which is borne by
Zimmern to have written after' Fufidius, but the sevelal persons in Roman history, belonging to