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letter addressed by Macrinus to the senate, has Seneca.'(Ep. 86.) Fundanius was cited also by
been commemorated by Dion Cassius. (Dion Cass. Varro in one of his philological treatises. (Varr.
lxxviii. 36, lxxix. 21.) [W. R.] R. R. i. 2. ~ 13, Frag. p. 349, ed. Bipont.)
FULVIUS ASPRIA'NUS, an historian, who 3. M. FUNDANIUS, defended by Cicero, B. c. 65.
detailed at great length the doings of the emperor The scanty fragments of the " Oratio pro M. FunCarinus. (Vopisc. Carin. ] 6.) danio" do not enable us to understand either the
FULVUS, the name of a family of the Aurelii, nature of the charge or the result of the trial. (Cic.
under the empire, from which the emperor Anto- Fragm. ed. Orelli, p. 445.) Q. Cicero (de Petit.
ninus was descended, whose name was originally Cons. 5) says that Fundanius possessed great inteT. Aelius Fulvus. (See the genealogical table in rest in the comitia and would be very serviceable
Vol. I. pp.-210, 211.) to M. Cicero at his approaching consular election.
FUNDA'NIA, the daughter of C. Fundanius Cicero held up to ridicule one of the witnesses for
[No. 2], and wife of M. Terentius Varro. [VARRO]. the prosecution on this trial, who could not enunFundania had purchased an estate, and Varro com- ciate properly the first letter in the name Fundaposed his three books, De Re Rustica, as a manual nius. (Quintil. Instit. i. 4. ~ 14.) While proconfor her instruction in the management of it. The sul of Asia Minor, B. c. 59, Q. Cicero favoured one
first of these books, entitled De Agricultura, is C. Fundanius in his demands on the property of
dedicated to her. (Varr. R. R. i. 1.) [W. B. D.] Octavius Naso; and as it is doubtful whether the
FUNDA'NIA GENS, plebeian, first came into nomen of this Fundanius were Marcus or Caius, it
notice in the middle of the third century. B. c.; is not unlikely that Naso's creditor and the debut though one of its members obtained the con- fendant, B. c. 65, were the same person. (Cic. ad
sulship (B.C. 243), the Fundanii never attained Q. Frat. i. 3. ~ 10.)
much importance in the state. FUNDULUS is the 4. C. FuNDA NIUS, perhaps a son of No. 2, is
only cognomen that occurs in this gens. [W. B. D.] spoken of by Cicero (ad Q. Fr-. i. 2. ~ 3) as a
It is uncertain to whom the two following coins friend of his. He may be the same as the C.
of this gens, both of which bear the name C. Fun- Fundanius, a Roman eques, who, in the Spanish
danius, are to be referred. The first has on the war, B. c. 45, deserted Cn. Pompeius the Younger,
obverse the head of Jupiter, and on the reverse and came over to Caesar a few days previous to
Victory placing a crown upon a trophy, with a the capture of Ategua (Teala Veja or Tequa) in
Baetica by the Caesarians, on the 19th of February
in that year. (Bell. Hisp. 11.)
5. C. FUNDA'NlUS, a writer of comedies in the
age of Augustus. Horace (Sat. i. 10. 41, 42)
praises his management of the slaves and intrigantes of the comic drama. He puts into the
mouth of Fundanius (Sat. ii. 8. 19) a description
captive kneeling by the side: the second has on of the rich but vulgar supper of Nasidienus, that
the obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse is, of Salvidienus Rufus. (Suet. Octav. 66; Vet.
Jupiter in a quadriga, the horses of which are Schol. ad Hor. Sat. i. 10. 41.) [W. B. D.]
driven by a person sitting upon one of them; the FU'NDULUS. 1. C. FUNDANIUS C. F. Q. N.
Q at the ton indicates that the coin was a Quina- FUNDULUS was one of the plebeian aediles in B. c.
rius. 246. He united with his colleague, Ti. Sempronius
- A..,,. Gracchus, in the impeachment of Claudia, one of the
daughters of App. Claudius Caecus. [CLAUDIA, 1.]
Em 0/'\. After encountering a strenuous opposition from the
numerous members and connections of the Claudian
~.~o 6L X 7 O0!gens, the aediles at length imposed a heavy fine
(:~~% ~ on Claudia; and they employed the money in
building on the Aventine hill a temple to Liberty.
(Liv. xxiv. 16.) Fundanius was consul in B. C.
FUNDA'NIUS. 1. M. FUNDANIUS, one of 243, and was sent into Sicily to oppose Hamilcar
the tribunes of the plebs in B. c. 195. In con- Barcas, who -then occupied the town of Eryx.
junction with another tribune, L. Valerius, Fun- The Carthaginian commander sent to the Roman
danius proposed the abolition of the Oppian sump- camp to demand a truce for the interment of the
tuary law, which laid some restrictions on the slain. Fundanius replied that Hamilcar should
dress and manners of the Roman women. Valerius rather propose a truce for the living, and rejected
and Fundanius were opposed by two members of his demand. But afterwards, when Fundanius
their own collegium, M. Brutus and T. Brutus, made a similar proposal, Hamilcar at once granted
and by one of the consuls of the year, M. Porcius it, observing that Ale warred not with the dead.
Cato. But the matrons supported the proposed (Gell. x. 6; Diod. Fragm. Vatican. p. 53.) The
abrogation so strenuously and pertinaciously, that scholiast on Cicero's speech against Clodius and
the law was rescinded. (See vol. i. p. 638; Liv. Curio, gives, however, a different version of the
xxxiv. 1.) history of Fundanius. He impeached, not Claudia,
2. C. FUNDANIUS was the father of Fundania, the daughter, but P. Claudius Pulcher, the son of
the wife of M. Terentius Varro. Fundanius is Appius Caecus, for his impiety in giving battle
one of the speakers in Varro's first dialogue, De contrary to the auspices, and for his defeat at
Re Rustica; and from the speech there assigned Drepana. [CLAUDIUS No. 13.] When the cenhim, he seems to have been a scholar, and ac- turies were preparing to vote, a thunder-storm inquainted with at least the statistics of agriculture. terrupted the proceedings. Other tribunes then
His account of the increasing luxury of the Roman interposed, and prohibited the same impeachcountry-houses may be compared with that of ment being brought forward by the same accusers