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192 GABINIANUS. GABINIUS.
captain of the' body-guard, and gave himself up to Rhetoribus. (Tac. de Orat. 26; Euseb. Chiron. ad
the luxurious profusion of the time. Juvenal Vespas. ann. 8.) [L. S]
describes him (iv. 112) as dreaming of battles in GABI'NIUS. 1. A.? GABINIUS, in B. C. 167,
his marble house - was placed by L. Anicius in the command of a
C" Fuscus marmorea meditatus praelia villa." garrison at Scodra in Illyricum, after the subjugation of king Gentius. (Liv. xlv. 26.)
Domitian, however, converted his dreams into re- 2. A. GABINIUS, was tribune of the plebs, in
ality, by sending him against the Dacians, who, B. c. 139, and introduced the first Lex Tabellarza,
under their king Decebalus, had recently defeated a which substituted the ballot for open voting (Dict.
Roman army, and were ravaging the province of qf Ant. s. v. Tabellariae Leges.) Porcius Latro (DeMaesia. Fuscus passed the Danube, but suffered clanzat. c. Catilinam, c. 19) mentions a Lex Gahimself to be surprised by the Dacians, who de- binia, by which clandestine assemblies in the city
stroyed his army, and captured his baggage and were punishable with death, but it is not known
standards. Martial wrote an epitaph on Fuscus to what age this law belongs, and even its exist(Ep. vi. 76), in which he refers to the Dacian ence has been doubted. (Heinec. Antiq. Rom. iv.
campaign. (Tac. Hist. ii. 86, iii. 4, 12, 42, 66, tit. 17. ~ 47; Dieck, Versuche iber das Criminaliv. 44; Suet. Domit. 6; Dion Cass. lxviii. 9; recht der Rimer, Halle, 1822, pp. 73, 74.).
Oros. vii. 10; Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, 3. A.? GABINIUS, was legatus in the Social
vol. iii. p. 172; Francke, Gesch. Trajan's, p. 80.) War, and, in B. C. 89, after a successful campaign
Pliny (Ep. vii. 9) addressed a letter to Cornelius against the Marsi and Lucani, lost his life in a
Fuscus, recommending translation as one of the blockade of the enemy's camp. (Liv. Epit. 76;
best methods of attaining a pure, impressive, and Flor. iii. 18. ~ 13; Oros. v. 18, calls him Caius.)
copious style. But as his correspondent was pre. 4. A. GABINIUS, fought at Chaeroneia in the
paring himself for the business of the forum, he army of Sulla as military tribune, and in the
can scarcely have been the Fuscus of Vespasian's beginning of B. C. 81, was despatched by Sulla to
time. He was probably the son. [W. B. D.] Asia with instructions to Murena to end the war
FUSCUS, GELL'IUS, wrote some account of with Mithridates. He was a moderate and hothe life of Tetricus Junior, and is quoted by Tre- nourable man. (Plut. Sull. 16,17; Appian, Mit/sr.
bellius Pollio. (Tetric. Jun. 25.) 66; Cic. pro Leg. Manil. 3.)
FUSUS, a surname of the two families, ME- 5. A. GABINIUS, of uncertain parentage, was
DULLINUS and PACILUS, Of the Furia Gens. Be- addicted in youth to expensive pleasures, and gave
sides these, there are two members of the Furia way to the seductions of dice, wine, and women..
Gens who occur in the Fasti, without any other His carefully curled hair was fragrant with unsurname than that of Fusus, but these probably guents, and his cheeks were coloured with rouge.
belonged either to the Medullini or the Pacili, and He was a proficient in the dance, and his house
must not be regarded as forming a separate family. resounded with music and song. If we may trust
They are:- the angry invective of Cicero (pro Sext. 8, 9, post
1. M. FuRIUS Fusrs, consular tribune in B. C. Red. in Sen. 4-8, in Pison. 11, pro Domo. 24,
403. (Fasti Capitol.; Diod. xiv. 35.) Instead of 48), he kept the most vicious company, and led the
him, Livy (v. 1) gives M. Postumius. This M. most impure and profligate life. Having dissiFurius Fusus must not be confounded with the pated his fortune by such a course of conduct, he
great M. Furius Camillus, whose first consular tri- looked to official station as the means of repairing
bunate Livy (1. c.) erroneously places in this year, his shattered finances. In B. C. 66 he was made
but which in all probability belongs to B. C. 401. tribune of the plebs, and moved that the command
[CAMILLUS, NO. 1.] of the war against the pirates should be given to
2. AGRIPPA FURIUS Fusus, consular tribune Pompey. The proposed law did not name Pompey,
in B. C. 391, the year before the taking of Rome but it plainly pointed to him, and was calculated
by the Gauls. (Liv. v. 32; Fasti Capitol.) to make him almost an absolute monarch. Among
other provisions, it directed that the people should
elect a commander whose imperium should extend
over the whole of the Mediterranean, and to a dis-G. Itance of fifty miles inland from its coasts,-who
should take such sums of money as he might think
GABAEUS (rataeos), ruler of the Lesser or fit out of the public treasures, and should have a
Hellespontine Phrygia, is mentioned by Xenophon fleet of 200 sail, with unlimited powers of raising
((yrop. ii. 1. ~ 5) as one of the allies of the Assy- soldiers and seamen. This proposition was very
rians against Cyrus and (the supposed) Cyaxares pleasing to the people, on account of the scarcity of
II. [CYRUS.] On the defeat of the Assyrians, provisions, which the interruption of commerce by
Gabaeus made the best of his way back to his own the pirates had occasioned; but it was equally discountry. (Cyrop. iv. 2. ~ 30.) [E. E.] pleasing to- the senators, who distrusted the amGABI'NIA GENS, plebeian. The name does bition of Pompey. Party-spirit was carried to such
not occur earlier than the second century B.C. a height that serious riots ensued. Gabinius was
There were no real family names in this gens, but in danger of his life from an attack of the senators.
only a few surnames, namely, CAP.TO (CIMBER), The senators, in turn, were assailed by the popuSISENNA, which are accordingly given under GA- lace, who would perhaps have sacrificed the consul,
BINIUS. [J. T. G.] Calpurnius Piso, to their fury, had not Gabinius
GABINIA'NUS, SEX. JU'LIUS, a celebrated effected his rescue, dreading the odium and severe
Roman rhetorician, who taught rhetoric in Gaul in re-action which such a catastrophe would have octhe time of Vespasian. All further information casioned. When the day of the comitia for putconcerning-him is lost, but we know that he was ting the rogatio to the vote arrived, Gabinius made
spoken of by Suetonius, in his work de Claris himself remarkable by his answers to the affected