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

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different periods as well as places, so thatwe cannot tations from ancient authorities are ascribed to
say whether they belonged to one gens or family writers and works which no one ever heard of, and
or not. are universally regarded as impudent fabrications.
1. C. FULCINIUS. When, in B. C. 438, the III. Liber de Expositione Virgilianae Continentiae
Fidenates had revolted against Rome, and joined ad Chalcidicum Grammaticum, a title which means,
Lars Tolumnius of Veil, the Romans sent C. Ful- an explanation of what is contained in' Virgil, that
cinius and three others as ambassadors to inquire is to say, of the esoteric truths allegorically coninto the cause of the revolt. But the Fidenates, veyed in the Virgilian poems. The absurdity of
on the advice of Tolumnius, put the Roman ambas- this piece is so glaring, that, had it been composed
sadors to death; and the Romans afterwards in a different age, we should have at once prohonoured the ambassadors with statues on the nounced it to be a tedious and exaggerated burRostra. (Liv. iv. 17; Cie. P/hil. ix. 2.) lesque. To take a single example. The Aeneid
2. M. FULCINIUS, of Tarquinii, in Etruria, a is supposed to shadow forth the career of man, as
man of high respectability, who carried on a con- he passes upwards through the weakness of infancy
siderable banking business at Rome. He had a and the waywardness of youth to wisdom and hap-.son of the same name, who died young; and a piness. Now we are told that Anchises died and
freedman of his likewise bore the name of M. was buried at Drepanum. But pevravov or 6peFulcinius. (Cic. pro Caec. 4, 6.) 7ravos is quasi apqxv7raros: apLus means harsh,
3. L. FULCINIUS, C. F., brought the charge of iras means a boy, therefore the interment of Anmurder against M. Saufeius in B. C. 52. (Ascon. chises by his son covertly expresses that the harshin Milon. p. 54.) The name of one L. Fulcinius ness of youth casts aside paternal restraint.
occurs on Macedonian coins; but as he is called The Editio Princeps of the 1l[ytitologiae was
quaestor, it is impossible to identify him with any published at Milan, with the commentaries of Bapt.
of the Fulcinii that are known to us. (Eckhel, Pius, in 1487, or accordingto other bibliographical
vol. v. p. 221.) [L. S.] authorities, in 1498. The best edition of the colFULCI'NIUS PRISCUS, a jurist of whom lected works of Fulgentius is included in the "Mylittle is known. In Dig. 25. tit. 2. s. 3. ~ 4, his thographi Latini" of Muncker, Auct. 1681, 8vo.,
opinion is cited by Paulus along with that of reprinted, with large additions, by Van Staveren,
Proculus and that of Mela. In Dig. 25. tit. 2. Lug. Bat. 1742, 4to. The Expositio Sermonumn is
s. 6, he is cited by Paulus along with Atilicinus. generally appended to Nonius Marcellus. [MARIn Dig. 39. tit. 6. s. 43, he is cited by Neratius. CELLUS, NONIUS.] [W. R.]
From Dig. 31. s. 49. ~ 2, it may be inferred that FULLO, a cognomen of the Apustia Gens at
he was not earlier than Labeo; and it may be Rome. [APUsTlA GENS.] It was probably deconjectured, with probability, that he was a con- rived from the occupation of one of the Apustii, a
temporary of Proculus. Guil. Grotius (De Vitis cleaner of woollen cloths.
Jurisc. ii. 5. ~ 5), places his date between the 1. L. APUSTIUS, L. F. C. N. FULLO, consul in
reign of Tiberius and that of Trajan. He is cited B. c. 226. There prevailed at Rome in his consulby Gaius, Pomponius, and Ulpian. Though he ship a panic of Gaulish invasion. The Sibylline
lived before Hadrian, he appears to have written books foretold that the Gauls and Greeks should
upon the praetor's edict, the form of which had possess the city. At once to fulfil and avert the
already acquired permanence, for in Dig. 11. tit. 7. -prophecy, the pontiffs directed a Gaulish man and
s. 29, Dig. 13. tit 1. ~ 13, Dig. 42. tit. 4. s. 7, pr. woman and a Greek man and woman to be buried
his opinion is cited by authors writing upon the alive in the ox-market at Rome. The whole of
edict. [J. T. G.] Fullo's consulship was employed in preparations
FULCI'NIUS TRIO. [TRIo.] for a Gaulish war and a general levy of the Italian
FULGE'NTIUS, FA'BIUS PLANCI'ADES people. (Polyb. ii. 22; Liv. Epit. xx., xxii. 17;
(not PLACIADES), a Latin grammarian of uncertain Plut. Marcell. 3; Oros. iv. 13; Zonar. viii. p.
date, probably not earlier than the sixth cen- 403. c.; Plin. H. N. iii. 20.)
tury after Christ. His barbarous and inflated 2. L. APUSTIUS FULLO, son probably of the
style yields strong indications of African origin, preceding. He was aedile of the plebs in B. c.
but he must by no means be confounded with Ful- 202, when the plebeian games in the Flaminian
gentius, who was bishop of Ruspe about the year Circus were thrice repeated. Fullo was Praetor,
A. D. 508, nor with Fulgentius Ferrandus, a pupil Urbanus in B. C. 196, and afterwards commissioner
of that prelate. Three works which bear evident under a plebiscite of Q. Aelius Tubero, for estabmarks of the same hand are ascribed to Fabius lishing a Latin colony in the district of Thurii,
Planciades Fulgentius. B. C. 194. (Liv. xxxi. 4, xxxiii. 24, 26, xxxiv.
I. Mythologiarum Libri III. ad Cataum Presbyte- 53, xxxv. 9.) [W. B. D.]
rum. A collection of the most remarkable tales FULLO'NIUS SATURNI'NUS. [SATURconnected with the history and exploits of gods NINUS.]
and heroes. A few incidents derived from sources FU'LVIA. 1. A Roman lady of rank, but of
now no longer accessible may be gathered here loose morality. She lived on terms of intimacy with
and there from this generally worthless compilation; Q. Curius, an accomplice of the Catilinarian conbut the attempts to rationalise the legends are cha- spiracy, who told her of the scheme that was afloat.
racterised by the wildest extravagance, while the As Curius had not the means of satisfying her exGreek etymologies of proper names are perfect travagant demands upon him, she took vengeance
portents of folly or ignorance. by divulging his secret: she communicated it,
II. Epositio Sermonum A ntiquorum cum Testi- among others also, to Cicero, and thus became the
mnoniis ad Chalcidicum Grammaticum. A glossary, means of suppressing the conspiracy. (Sall. Cat.
as the name imports, of obsolete words and phrases. 23, 26, 28.)
It is very short, and almost entirely without value, 2. A daughter of M. Fulvius Bambalio of Tusfor many, of the passages which profess to be quo- culum, by Sempronia, a grand-daughter of Tudi