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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(Dionys. xi. 52.) Livy (iv. 1) mentions the roga- it on account of some remarkable scandal attached
tion, but not Furnius. to his life. (Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 12. ~ 152.) He
2. Tribune of the plebs B. C.u 50 (Cic. ad Ait. v. instructed in rhetoric the poet Ovid (Senec. Con2, 18), and a friend and correspondent of Cicero. trov. x. p. 157. Bip.), thephilosopher Fabianus (Id.
(Ad Fam. x. 25, 26.) Cicero trusted to the Controv.. proem. ii.), and others. He declaimed
exertions of Furnius, while tribune, to obtain more frequently in Greek than in Latin (Suasor.
for him his recal at the end of his first year as iv. p. 29), and his style of declamation is described
proconsul of Cilicia, and, after his return, a suppli- by Seneca (Controv. proem. ii. p. 134), as more
catio or thanksgiving. (Ad Fant. viii. 10, ix. 24, brilliant than solid, antithetical rather than elo-.
xv. 14.) A clause, however, which Furnius in- quent. Seneca, however, highly commends his
serted in his plebiscite, making the recal depend- statement (eaplicatio) of an argument. (Suasor. iv.)
ent on the Parthians remaining quiet until the His eulogy of Cicero (Sasor. vii. p. 50) is the most
month of August, B. C. 50, was unsatisfactory to interesting specimen of his manner. The SuasoCicero, since July was the usual season of their riae and Controversiae both abound in citations
inroads. (Cic. ad Alt. vi. 1.) Furnius, as tribune, from the rhetorical exercises of Fuscus.:His rival
was opposed to the unreasonable demands of the in teaching and declaiming was Porcius Latro.
oligarchical party at Rome, that Caesar should im- [LATRO], and their styles seem to have been exact
mediately and unconditionally resign his proconsul- opposites. (Comp. Contro,. ii. proem. and x. p.
ship of Gaul. (Cic. ad Fain. viii. 10.) After the 157.) Pliny (I. N. xxxiii. 12..~ 152) reproaches
breaking out of the civil war, he was sent by Fuscus with wearing silver rings. There were two
Caesar with letters to Cicero in March, B. C. 49, rhetoricians of this name, a father and son, since
(Cic. ad Alt. ix. 6, 11, vii. 19.) Cicero recom- Seneca generally affixes "pater" to his mention of
mended Furnius to L. Munatius Plancus [PLAN- Arellius Fuscus. The praenomen of one of them:
cus], at that time, B. C. 43, proconsul in Transal- was Quintus. [W. B. D.]
pine Gaul (ad Fam. x. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12), and FUSCUS, ARI'STIUS, a friend of the poet.
he was legatus to Plancus during the first war be- Horace. (Sat. i. 9. 61, Ep. i. 10.) Acro (ad loc.).
tween Antony and Augustus, and until after the calls Fuscus a writer of tragedies; Porphyrion
battle of Philippi, B. C. 42. During the war be- (ib.) of comedies; while other scholiasts describe,
tween Antony and the senate, Furnius apprised him as a grammarian. Since the names Viscus:
Cicero of the movements and sentiments of the and Tuscus are easily convertible into Fuscus,
Roman legions and commanders in Gaul and Spain, Heinsius (ad Ov. ex Pont. iv. 16. 20) contends
but his letters have not been preserved. (Ad Fam. that Viscus (Hor. Sat. i. 9. 22) and Tuscus (Ov.
x.) In the Perusine war, B. C. 41-2, Furnius took 1. c.), the author of a poem entitled Phyllis, should:
part with L. Antonius. [ANToNIus, No. 14.] He be read Fuscus. (See Jahn's Jahrbuch d. Phil. ii
defended Sentinum in Umbria against Augustus, 4, p. 420, for the year 1829.) Horace addressed
and shared the sufferings of the "'PerusinaFames." an ode (Carm. i. 22) and an epistle (Ep. i. 10) to
Furnius was one of three officers commissioned by Fuscus Aristius, whom he also introduces elseL. Antonius to negotiate the surrender of Perusia, where (Sat. i. 9. 61; 10.-83). [W. B. D.]
and his reception by Augustus was such as to FUSCUS, TI. CLAU'DIUS SALINA'TOR,
awaken in the Antonian party suspicions of his a correspondent of the younger Pliny. (Ep. ix.
fidelity. (Appian, B. C. v. 30, 40, 41; Dion Cass. 36, 40.) Fuscus was of a senatorian family, posxlviii. 13, 14.) In B. C. 35 he was prefect of sessed of great eloquence-and learning (Plin. Ep.
Asia Minor, under M. Antony, where he took vi. 11), and remarkable for his simplicity and
prisoner Sex. Pompeius, who had fled thither after sobriety of character. (vi. 26.) He was Hadrian's
his defeat by Agrippa, B. C. 36. (Appian, B. C!. colleague in the consulship of A. D. 118. He marv. 137-1] 42.) After the battle of Actium, B. c. ried a daughter of Julius Servianus. (Plin. Ep.
31, Furnius, through the mediation of his son vi. 26; Dion Cass. lxix. 17; Westermann, R1C. Furnius, was reconciled to Augustus (Senec. snisch. Beredsamk. ~ 84, 35.)
De Benef. ii. 25), and received from him the rank Fuscus, son of the preceding, was put to death
of a consular senator (Dion Cass. lii. 42), and was in his nineteenth year, with his father-in-law, Serafterwards appointed one of the supplementary vianus, by Hadrian, who charged Fuscus with
consuls, in B.C. 29, which is the first time the aspiring to the empire. (Spartian. Hadrian. 23.)
name of Furnius appears on the consular Fasti. Dion Cassius (lxix. 17) says that Fuscus and SerHe was prefect of Hither Spain in B. C. 21. (Dion vianus owed their death to imprudently expressing
Cass. liv. 5; Flor. iv. 12.) Furnius is probably men- displeasure at Hadrian's choice of L. Commodus
tioned by the author, De Oratoribus (c. 21) among Verus for his successor. [W. B. D.]
the speakers whose meagre and obsolete diction FUSCUS, CORNE'LIUS, one of the mostw
rendered their works impossible to read without active adherents of Vespasian in his contest with
9n inclination to sleep or smile. Vitellius for the empire A. D. 69. In decision,
3. Son of the preceding, consul B. C. 17. He zeal, and popularity with the soldiers, Tacitus
reconciled Augustus to his father, C. Furnius, who ranks Fuscus second to Antonius Primus alone.
had been up to B.C. 31 a staunch adherent of [PRIMaUS, ANTONIUS.] During Nero's reign,
M. Antonius. (Senec. Benefic. ii. 25.) It is Fuscus lived in retirement on an estate inherited
doubtful whether the Furnius put to death by the from noble ancestors; but he served under Galba,
senate in the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 26, for adul- and was made by him procurator of Pannonia. In
tery with Claudia Pulchra, be the same person. the war with Vitellius, the fleet at Ravenna elected
[Tac. Ann. iv. 52.) [W. B. D.] Fuscus their leader, and under his command moved
FUSCIA'NUS. [TuscANvs. ] along the eastern coast of Italy, in concert with
FUSCUS, ARE'LLIUS, a rhetorician who the troops of Vespasian. For his services at this
Nourished at Rome in the latter years of Augustus. time Vespasian rewarded Fuscus with the insignia
HIe was of equestrian rank, but was degraded from and rank of praetor. Under Domitian Fuscis was