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

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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