FULGINIA.
ciABINIUS.
»f these works is iu the Mythographi Latini of
Muneker, Auet, 1681, and of Van Staveren,
Lugd, Bat, 1742.
Fulginia, Fulginium (Fulginas, -atis : now
Foligno), a town in the interior of Umbria, on
the Via Flam'jiia, was a municipium.
Fulvia, 1. The mistress of Q. Curius, one
of Catiline'3 conspirators, divulged the plot to
Cicero.—2. A daughter of M. Fulvius Bambalio
of Tusculum, thrice married, first to the cele¬
brated P. Clodius, by whom she had a daughter,
Clodia, afterward the wife of Octavianus ; sec¬
ondly to C. Scribonius Curio, and tMrdly to
M. Antony, by whom she had two sons. She
was a bold and ambitious woman. In the pro¬
scription of B.C. 43 she acted with the greatest
arrogance and brutality : she gazed with delight
upon the head of Cicero, the victim of her hus
band. Her turbulent and ambitious spirit ex¬
cited a new war in Italy in 41. Jealous of the
power of Octavianus, and anxious to withdraw
Antony from the East, she induced L. Antonius,
the brother of her husband, to take up arms
against Octavianus. But Lucius was unable to
resist Octavianus, and threw Mmself into Peru¬
sia, which he was obliged to surrender in the
following year (40). Fulvia fled to Greece and
died at Sicyon in the course of the same year.
Fulvia Gens, a plebeian, but one of the most
illustrious Roman gentes. It originally eame
from Tusculum. The principal families in the
gens are those of Centumalus, Flaccus, Nobil¬
ior, and PjEtinus.
Flndanius. 1. C, father of Fundania, the
wife of M. Terentius Varro, is one of the speak-
ara in Varro's dialogue, Be Re Rustica.—2. M,
defended by Cicero, B.C. 65 ; but the scanty
fragments of Cicero's speech do not enable us
to understand the nature of the charge.-—3. A
writer of comedies praised by Horace (Sat, i,
10, 41, 42).
FtfMDi (Fundanus : now Fondi), an ancient
town in Latium, on the Appia Via, at the head
of a narrow bay of the sea, running a consider
able way into the land, called the LacCs Fun
danus. Fundi was a municipium, and was sub¬
sequently colonized by the veterans of Augus¬
tus. The surrounding country produced good
wine. There are still remains at Fondi of the
walls of the ancient town.
FuRCUL-E CAUDlNiE. Vid. Caudtom.
Furia Gens, an aucient patrician gens, prob¬
ably came from Tusculum. The most cele¬
brated families of the gens bore the names of
Camillus Medullinus, Paoilus, and Philus.
For others of less note, vid. Bibaculus, Cras-
sipes, Purpureo.
FurLe. Vid Eumenides.
Flrina, an ancient Roman divinity, who had
a sacred grove at Rome. Her worship seems
to have become extinct at an early time. An
annual festival (Furinalia or Furinalesferie) had
been celebrated in honor of her, and a flamen
(flecaen Furinalis) conducted her worship. She
had also a temple in the neighborhood of Satri-
eim.
FurnIus, 0, a friend and correspondent of
Cicero, was tribune of the plebs B.C. 50 ; sided
with Caesar in the civil war ; and after Ctesar's
death was a stanch adherent cf Antony. After
the battle of Actium, 31, he waa reconciled to
314
Augustus through the mediation of Ms Kti, w»i
appointed consul in 29, and was prefect cf Hither
Spain in 21.
Fuscus. 1. Arellius, a rhetorician at Rom«
in the latter years of Augustus, instructed hi
rhetoric the poet Ovid. He declaimed more fre
quently in Greek than in Latin, and his style of
declamation is described by Seneca as more
brilliant than solid, antithetical rather than elo¬
quent. His rival in teaching and declaiming
was Poreius Latro. Vid. Latro.—2. Aristius,
a friend of the poet Horace, who addressed to
Mm an ode (Carm, i, 22) and an epistle (Ep, i,
10), and who also introduces him elsewhere
(Sat, i, 9, 61 ; 10, 83).—3. Cornelius, one of
the most active adherents of Vespasian in his
contest for the empire, A.D. 69. In the reign
of Domitian he was sent against the Dacians,
by whom he was defeated. Martial wrote an
epitaph on Fuscus (Ep, vi, 76), in which he re¬
fers to the Dacian campaign.
G.
Gab-e (TdBai). 1. (Now Barabgherd ?), a loi-
tress and royal residence in the interior of Pcr-
sis, southeast of Pasargadaa, near the bordem
of Carmania.—2. Or Gabaza, or Cazaba, a for¬
tress in Sogdiana, on the confines of the Massa-
getae.
Gabala (TuBaXa), a sea-port town of Syria
Seleucis, south of Laodisea, whence good sto-
rax was obtained.
Gabali, a people in Gallia Aquitanica, whose
country possessed silver mines and good pas¬
turage. Their chief town was Anderitum (now
Anterieux).
Gabiana or -ene (TaBiavij, VaBinvij), a fertile
district in the Persian province of Susiana, west
of Mount Zagros.
Gabii (Gabinus : ruins near Castiglione), a
town in Latium, on the Laeus Gabinus (now
Lago di Gavi), between Rome and Praeneste,
was in early times one of the most powerful
Latin cities; a colony from Alba Longa ; and
the place, according to tradition, where Romulus
was brought up. It was taken by Tarquinius
Superbus by stratagem, and it was in ruins in
the time of Augustus (Gabiis desertior vicus, Hor,
Ep, i, 11, 7). The cindus Gabinus, a peculiar
mode of wearing the toga at Rome, appears to
have been derived from this town. In the
neighborhood of Gabii are the immense stone
quarries from which a part of Rome was built.
Gabinius, A, dissipated his fortune in youth
by his profligate mode of life. He was tribune
of the plebs B.C 66, when he proposed and car¬
ried a law conferring upon Pompey the com¬
mand of the war against the pirates. He wa§
praetor in 61, and consul 58 with L. Pis«
Both consuls supported Clodius in Ms measures
against Cicero, which resulted in the banish
ment of the orator. In 57 Gabinius went to
Syria as proconsul. His first attention was di
rected to the affairs of Judea. He restored
Hyrcanus to the high priesthood, of which he
had been dispossessed by Alexander, the son of
Aristobulus. He next marched into Egypt, and
restored Ptolemy Auletes to the throne. The
restoration of Ptolemy had been forbidden by 8
decree of the senate, and by the Sibvlline books
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