they were besieged by Camillus, a schoolmaster went out of the gates
of the city with his pupils, and betrayed them into the hands of the
Roman enemy, that by such a possession he might easily oblige the
place to surrender. Camillus heard the proposal with indignation,
and ordered the man to be stripped naked and whipped back to the
town by those whom his perfidy wished to betray. This instance
of generosity operated upon the people so powerfully that they
surrendered to the Romans. _Plutarch_, _Camillus_.
=Faliscus Gratius.= _See:_ Gratius.
=Fama= (_fame_), was worshipped by the ancients as a powerful goddess,
and generally represented blowing a trumpet, &c. _Statius_, bk. 3,
_Thebiad_, li. 427.
=Fannia=, a woman of Minturnæ, who hospitably entertained Marius in
his flight, though he had formerly sat in judgment upon her, and
divorced her from her husband.
=Fannia lex=, _de sumptibus_, by Fannius the consul, A.U.C. 593. It
enacted that no person should spend more than 100 _asses_ a day at
the great festivals, and 30 _asses_ on other days, and 10 at all
other times.
=Fannii=, two orators of whom Cicero speaks in _Brutus_.
=Fannius=, an inferior poet ridiculed by Horace, because his poems
and picture were consecrated in the library of Apollo, on mount
Palatine at Rome, as it was then usual for such as possessed merit.
_Horace_, bk. 1, satire 4, li. 21.――――A person who killed himself
when apprehended in a conspiracy against Augustus. _Martial_, bk. 12,
ltr. 80.――――Caius, an author in Trajan’s reign, whose history of the
cruelties of Nero is greatly regretted.
=Fanum Vacūnæ=, a village in the country of the Sabines. _Horace_,
bk. 1, ltr. 10, li. 49.
=Farfărus=, a river of the Sabines, falling into the Tiber above
Capena. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 14, li. 330.
=Fascelis=, a surname of Diana, because her statue was brought from
Taurica by Iphigenia in a bundle of sticks (_fascis_), and placed at
Aricia.
=Fascellina=, a town of Sicily near Panormus. _Silius Italicus_,
bk. 14, li. 261.
=Faucŭla=, a prostitute who privately conveyed food to the Roman
prisoners at Capua. _Livy_, bk. 26, ch. 33.
=Faventia=, a town of Spain. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 1.――――Of Italy.
_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 597.――_Pliny_, bk. 14, ch. 15.
――_Martial_, bk. 2, ltr. 74.
=Faveria=, a town of Istria. _Livy_, bk. 41, ch. 11.
=Faula=, a mistress of Hercules.
=Fauna=, a deity among the Romans, daughter of Picus, and originally
called _Marica_. Her marriage with Faunus procured her the name of
Fauna, and her knowledge of futurity that of _Fatua_ and _Fatidica_.
It is said that she never saw a man after her marriage with Faunus,
and that her uncommon chastity occasioned her being ranked among
the gods after death. She is the same, according to some, as _Bona
Mater_. Some mythologists accuse her of drunkenness, and say that
she expired under the blows of her husband, for an immoderate use
of wine. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 47, &c.――_Varro._――_Justin_,
bk. 43, ch. 1.
=Faunalia=, festivals at Rome in honour of Faunus.
=Fauni=, certain deities of the country, represented as having the
legs, feet, and ears of goats, and the rest of the body human. They
were called satyrs by the Greeks. The peasants offered them a lamb
or a kid with great solemnity. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 10.
――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 6, li. 392.
=Faunus=, a son of Picus, who is said to have reigned in Italy about
1300 years B.C. His bravery as well as wisdom have given rise to
the tradition that he was son of Mars. He raised a temple in honour
of the god Pan, called by the Latins Lupercus, at the foot of the
Palatine hill, and he exercised hospitality towards strangers with a
liberal hand. His great popularity and his fondness for agriculture
made his subjects revere him as one of their country deities after
death. He was represented with all the equipage of the satyrs, and
was consulted to give oracles. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 1,
ch. 7.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 47; bk. 8, li. 314; bk. 10,
li. 55.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 17.
=Favo=, a Roman mimic, who at the funeral of Vespasian imitated
the manners and gestures of the deceased emperor. _Suetonius_,
_Vespasian_, ch. 19.
=Favorinus=, a philosopher and eunuch under Adrian, &c.
=Fausta=, a daughter of Sylla, &c. _Horace_, bk. 1, satire 2, li. 64.
――――The wife of the emperor Constantine, disgraced for her cruelties
and vices.
=Faustīna=, the wife of the emperor Antoninus, famous for her
debaucheries. Her daughter of the same name, blessed with beauty,
loveliness, and wit, became the most abandoned of her sex.
She married Marcus Aurelius.――――The third wife of the emperor
Heliogabalus bore that name.
=Faustĭtas=, a goddess among the Romans supposed to preside over
cattle. _Horace_, bk. 4, ode 5, li. 17.
=Faustŭlus=, a shepherd ordered to expose Romulus and Remus. He
privately brought them up at home. _Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 4.――_Justin_,
bk. 43, ch. 2.――_Plutarch_, _Romulus_.
=Faustus=, an obscure poet under the first Roman emperors, two
of whose dramatic pieces, Thebæ and Tereus, _Juvenal_ mentions,
satire 7, li. 12.
=Februus=, a god at Rome, who presided over purifications.――――The
Feralia sacrifices which the Romans offered to the gods manes, were
also called _Februa_, whence the name of the month of February,
during which the oblations were made.
=Feciāles=, a number of priests at Rome, employed in declaring war
and making peace. When the Romans thought themselves injured, one
of this sacerdotal body was empowered to demand redress, and after
the allowance of 33 days to consider the matter, war was declared
if submissions were not made, and the Fecialis hurled a bloody spear
into the territories of the enemy in proof of intended hostilities.
_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 3; bk. 4, ch. 30.
=Felginas=, a Roman knight killed by Pompey at Dyrracchium. _Cæsar_,
bk. 3, _Civil War_.
=Felix Marcus Antonius=, a freedman of Claudius Cæsar, made governor
of Judæa, Samaria, and Palestine. He is called by Suetonius the
husband of three queens, as he married the two Drusillæ, one
granddaughter of Antony and Cleopatra, and the other a Jewish
princess, sister of Agrippa. The name of his third wife is unknown.
_Suetonius_, _Divus Claudius_, ch. 18.――_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 12,
ch. 14.
=Feltria=, a town of Italy at the north of Venice.
=Fenestella=, a Roman historian in the age of Augustus. He died at
Cumæ.――――One of the gates at Rome. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 6, li. 578.
=Fenni=, or =Finni=, the inhabitants of Finningia, or Eningia, now
considered as Finland. _Tacitus_, _Germania_, ch. 46.――_Pliny_,
bk. 4, ch. 13.
=Ferālia=, a festival in honour of the dead, observed at Rome the 17th
or 21st of February. It continued for 11 days, during which time
presents were carried to the graves of the deceased, marriages were
forbidden, and the temples of the gods were shut. It was universally
believed that the manes of their departed friends came and hovered
over their graves, and feasted upon the provisions that the hand
of piety and affection had procured for them. Their punishments in
the infernal regions were also suspended, and during that time they
enjoyed rest and liberty.
=Ferentīnum=, a town of the Hernici at the east of Rome. The
inhabitants were called _Ferentinates_, or _Ferentini_. _Silius
Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 394.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 50; bk. 9, chs. 43
& 44.
=Ferentum=, or =Forentum=, a town of Apulia, now _Forenza_. _Horace_,
bk. 3, ode 4, li. 15.――_Livy_, bk. 9, chs. 16 & 20.
=Fĕrētrius=, a surname of _Jupiter_, _a ferendo_, because he had
assisted the Romans, or _a feriendo_, because he had conquered their
enemies under Romulus. He had a temple at Rome built by Romulus,
where the spoils called _opima_ were always carried. Only two
generals obtained these celebrated spoils after the age of Romulus.
_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 10.――_Plutarch_, _Romulus_.――_Cornelius Nepos_,
_Atticus_, ch. 20.
=Feriæ Latīnæ=, festivals at Rome instituted by Tarquin the Proud.
The principal magistrates of 47 towns in Latium usually assembled on
a mount near Rome, where they, together with the Roman magistrates,
offered a bull to Jupiter Latialis, of which they carried home some
part after the immolation, after they had sworn mutual friendship
and alliance. It continued but one day originally, but in process
of time four days were dedicated to its celebration. _Dionysius of
Halicarnassus_, bk. 4, ch. 49.――_Cicero_, ltr. 6.――_Livy_, bk. 21,
&c. The _feriæ_ among the Romans were certain days set apart to
celebrate festivals, and during that time it was unlawful for any
person to work. They were either public or private. The public were
of four different kinds. The _feriæ stativæ_ were certain immovable
days always marked in the calendar, and observed by the whole city
with much festivity and public rejoicing. The _feriæ conceptivæ_
were movable feasts, and the day appointed for the celebration was
always previously fixed by the magistrates or priests. Among these
were the _feriæ Latinæ_, which were first established by Tarquin,
and observed by the consuls regularly before they set out for
the provinces; the _Compitalia_, &c. The _feriæ imperativæ_ were
appointed only by the command of the consul, dictator, or pretor,
as a public rejoicing for some important victory gained over the
enemies of Rome. The _feriæ Nundinæ_ were regular days in which
the people of the country and neighbouring towns assembled together
and exposed their respective commodities to sale. They were called
Nundinæ, because kept every ninth day. The _feriæ privatæ_ were
observed only in families, in commemoration of birthdays, marriages,
funerals, and the like. The days on which the _feriæ_ were observed
were called by the Romans _festi dies_, because dedicated to mirth,
relaxation, and festivity.
=Fērōnia=, a goddess at Rome, who presided over the woods and groves.
The name is derived _a ferendo_, because she gave assistance to
her votaries, or perhaps from the town Feronia, near mount Soracte,
where she had a temple. It was usual to make a yearly sacrifice
to her, and to wash the face and hands in the waters of the sacred
fountain, which flowed near her temple. It is said that those who
were filled with the spirit of this goddess could walk barefooted
over burning coals without receiving any injury from the flames.
The goddess had a temple and a grove about three miles from Anxur,
and also another in the district of Capena. _Livy_, bk. 33, ch. 26.
――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, lis. 697 & 800.――_Varro_, _de Lingua
Latina_, bk. 4, ch. 10.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 13.――_Strabo_, bk. 5.
――_Horace_, bk. 1, satire 5, li. 24.
=Fescennia= (iorum, or ium), a town of Etruria, now _Galese_, where
the _Fescennine verses_ were first invented. These verses, the
name of which conveys an idea of vulgar obscenity, were a sort of
rustic dialogue spoken extempore, in which the actors exposed before
their audience the failings and vices of their adversaries, and by
satirical humour and merriment endeavoured to raise the laughter
of the company. They were often repeated at nuptials, and many
lascivious expressions were used for the general diversion, as also
at harvest home, when gestures were made adapted to the sense of the
unpolished verses that were used. They were proscribed by Augustus
as of immoral tendency. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bk. 7, li. 695.――_Horace_, bk. 2, ltr. 1, li. 145.
=Fesŭlæ=, or =Fæsulæ=, a town of Etruria, where Sylla settled a colony.
_Cicero_, _Against Catiline_, bk. 3, ch. 6.
=Festus=, a friend of Domitian, who killed himself in an illness.
_Martial_, bk. 1, ltr. 79.――――Porcius, a proconsul who succeeded
Felix as governor of Judæa, under Claudius.
=Fibrēnus=, a river of Italy, falling into the Liris through Cicero’s
farm at Arpinum. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 400.――_Cicero_, _De
Legibus_, bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Ficana=, a town of Latium, at the south of Rome, near the Tiber.
_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 33.
=Ficaria=, a small island on the east of Sardinia, now _Serpentera_.
_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 7.
=Ficulea=, or =Ficulnea=, a town of Latium beyond mount Sacer, at
the north of Rome. Cicero had a villa there, and the road that led
to the town was called _Ficulnensis_, afterwards _Nomentana Via_.
_Cicero_, bk. 12, _Letters to Atticus_, ltr. 34.――_Livy_, bk. 1,
ch. 38; bk. 3, ch. 52.
=Fidēna=, an inland town of Latium, whose inhabitants are called
_Fidenates_. The place was conquered by the Romans B.C. 435.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 773.――_Juvenal_, satire 1, li. 44.
――_Livy_, bk. 1, chs. 14, 15 & 27; bk. 2, ch. 19; bk. 4, chs. 17
& 21.
=Fidentia=, a town of Gaul on the south of the Po, between Placentia
and Parma. _Velleius Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 28.――_Pliny_, bk. 3,
ch. 15.――_Cicero_, _De Inventione_, bk. 2, ch. 54.
=Fides=, the goddess of faith, oaths, and honesty, worshipped by the
Romans. Numa was the first who paid her divine honours.
=Fĭdĭcŭlæ=, a place of Italy. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 7, ch. 6.
=Fidius Dius=, a divinity by whom the Romans generally swore. He was
also called Sancus, or Sanctus, and Semipater, and he was solemnly
addressed in prayers the 5th of June, which was yearly consecrated
to his service. Some suppose him to be Hercules. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk.
6, li. 213.――_Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 4, ch. 10.――_Dionysius
of Halicarnassus_, bks. 2 & 9.
=Fimbria=, a Roman officer who besieged Mithridates in Pritaine, and
failed in his attempts to take him prisoner. He was deserted by his
troops for his cruelty, upon which he killed himself. _Plutarch_,
_Lucullus_.
=Firmum=, now _Fermo_, a town of Picenum on the Adriatic, the port of
which was called _Castellum Firmanum_. _Cicero_, bk. 8, _Letters to
Atticus_, ltr. 12.――_Pliny_, bk. 7, ch. 8.――_Velleius_, bk. 1, ch. 14.
=Marcus Firmius=, a powerful native of Seleucia, who proclaimed
himself emperor, and was at last conquered by Aurelian.
=Fiscellus=, a part of the Apennine mountains in Umbria, where the Nar
rises. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 518.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 12.
=Flacilla Antonia=, a Roman matron in Nero’s age, &c. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 14, ch. 7.
=Flaccus=, a consul who marched against Sylla, and was assassinated
by Fimbria. _Plutarch._――――A poet. _See:_ Valerius.――――A governor of
Egypt, who died A.D. 39.――――Verrius, a grammarian, tutor to the two
grandsons of Augustus, and supposed author of the Capitoline marbles.
――――A name of Horace. _See:_ Horatius.
=Ælia Flacilla=, the mother of Arcadius and Honorius, was daughter of
Antonius, a prefect of Gaul.
=Flāmĭnia lex=, _agraria_, by Caius Flaminius the tribune, A.U.C. 525.
It required that the lands of Picenum, from which the Gauls Senones
had been expelled, should be divided among the Roman people.
=Flaminia via=, a celebrated road which led from Rome to Ariminum and
Aquileia. It received its name from Flaminius, who built it, and was
killed at the battle of Thrasymenus against Annibal.――――A gate of
Rome opening to the same road, now _del popolo_.
=Caius Flāmĭnius=, a Roman consul of a turbulent disposition, who was
drawn into a battle near the lake of Thrasymenus, by the artifice of
Annibal. He was killed in the engagement, with an immense number of
Romans, B.C. 217. The conqueror wished to give a burial to his body,
but it was not found in the heaps of slain. While tribune of the
people he proposed an agrarian law against the advice of his friends,
of the senate, and of his own father. _Cicero_, _de Inventione_, bk.
2, ch. 17.――_Livy_, bk. 22, ch. 3, &c.――_Polybius._――_Florus_, bk. 2,
ch. 6.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 6.
=Titus Quinctius Flāmĭnius=, or =Flaminīnus=, a celebrated Roman
raised to the consulship, A.U.C. 556. He was trained in the art
of war against Annibal, and he showed himself capable in every
respect to discharge with honour the great office with which he
was entrusted. He was sent at the head of the Roman troops against
Philip king of Macedonia, and in his expedition he met with uncommon
success. The Greeks gradually declared themselves his firmest
supporters, and he totally defeated Philip on the confines of Epirus,
and made all Locris, Phocis, and Thessaly tributary to the Roman
power. He granted peace to the conquered monarch, and proclaimed all
Greece free and independent at the Isthmian games. This celebrated
action procured the name of patrons of Greece to the Romans, and
insensibly paved their way to universal dominion. Flaminius behaved
among them with the greatest policy, and by his ready compliance
with their national customs and prejudices he gained uncommon
popularity, and received the name of father and deliverer of Greece.
He was afterwards sent ambassador to king Prusias, who had given
refuge to Annibal, and there his prudence and artifice hastened
out of the world a man who had long been the terror of the Romans.
Flaminius was found dead in his bed, after a life spent in the
greatest glory, in which he had imitated with success the virtues of
his model Scipio. _Plutarch_, _Parallel Lives_.――_Florus._――――Lucius,
the brother of the preceding, signalized himself in the wars of
Greece. He was expelled from the senate for killing a Gaul, by
Cato, his brother’s colleague in the censorship, an action which was
highly resented by Titus. _Plutarch_, _Flaminius_.――――Calp. Flamma,
a tribune, who at the head of 300 men saved the Roman army in Sicily,
B.C. 258, by engaging the Carthaginians and cutting them to pieces.
=Flanaticus sinus=, a bay of the Flanates, in Liburnia on the Adriatic,
now the gulf of _Carnero_. _Pliny_, bk. 3, chs. 19 & 21.
=Flāvia lex=, _agraria_, by Lucius Flavius, A.U.C. 693, for the
distribution of a certain quantity of lands among Pompey’s soldiers
and the commons.
=Flāviānum=, a town of Etruria, on the Tiber, called also Flavinium.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 696.――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 492.
=Flāvinia=, a town of Latium, which assisted Turnus against Æneas.
_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 696.
=Flavius=, a senator who conspired with Piso against Nero, &c.
_Tacitus._――――A tribune of the people deposed by Julius Cæsar.――――A
Roman who informed Gracchus of the violent measures of the senate
against him.――――A brother of Vespasian, &c.――――A tribune who wounded
one of Annibal’s elephants in an engagement.――――A schoolmaster at
Rome in the age of Horace. Bk. 1, satire 6, li. 72.――――One of the
names of the emperor Domitian. _Juvenal_, satire 4, li. 37.
=Flevus=, the right branch of the Rhine, which formed a large lake on
its falling into the sea called _Flevo_, now _Zuider-Zee_. It was
afterwards called _Helium_, now _Ulie_, when its breadth became more
contracted, and a fort erected there obtained the name of _Flevum
Frisiorum_. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 2, ch. 6; bk. 4, li. 72.
――_Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 15.――_Mela_, bk. 3, ch. 2.
=Flōra=, the goddess of flowers and gardens among the Romans, the same
as the Chloris of the Greeks. Some suppose that she was originally
a common courtesan, who left to the Romans the immense riches which
she had acquired by prostitution and lasciviousness, in remembrance
of which a yearly festival was instituted in her honour. She was
worshipped even among the Sabines, long before the foundation of
Rome, and likewise among the Phoceans, who built Marseilles long
before the existence of the capital of Italy. Tatius was the first
who raised her a temple in the city of Rome. It is said that she
married Zephyrus, and that she received from him the privilege of
presiding over flowers, and of enjoying perpetual youth. _See:_
Floralia. She was represented as crowned with flowers, and holding
in her hand the horn of plenty. _Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 5, li. 195, &c.
_Varro_, _de Re Rustica_, bk. 1.――_Lactantius_, bk. 1, ch. 20.――――A
celebrated courtesan passionately loved by Pompey the Great. She was
so beautiful, that when the temple of Castor and Pollux at Rome was
adorned with paintings, her picture was drawn and placed amongst the
rest.――――Another courtesan, &c. _Juvenal_, satire 2, li. 49.
=Florālia=, games in honour of Flora at Rome. They were instituted
about the age of Romulus, but they were not celebrated with
regularity and proper attention till the year ♦A.U.C. 580. They
were observed yearly, and exhibited a scene of the most unbounded
licentiousness. It is reported that Cato wished once to be present
at the celebration, and that when he saw that the deference for
his presence interrupted the feast, he retired, not choosing to
be the spectator of the prostitution of naked women in a public
theatre. This behaviour so captivated the degenerate Romans, that
the venerable senator was treated with the most uncommon applause as
he retired. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 2, ch. 10.――_Varro_, _de Lingua
Latina_, bk. 1.――_Paterculus_, ch. 1.――_Pliny_, bk. 18, ch. 29.
♦ ‘U.C.’ replaced with ‘A.U.C.’
=Flōrentia=, a town of Italy on the Arnus, now _Florence_, the capital
of Tuscany. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 1, ch. 79.――_Florus_, bk. 3,
ch. 21.――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.
=Floriānus=, a man who wore the imperial purple at Rome only for two
months, A.D. 276.
=Flōrus Lucius Annæus Julius=, a Latin historian of the same family
which produced Seneca and Lucan, A.D. 116. He wrote an abridgment
of Roman annals in four books, composed in a florid and poetical
style, and rather a panegyric on many of the great actions of the
Romans than a faithful and correct recital of their history. He also
wrote poetry, and entered the lists against the emperor Adrian, who
satirically reproached him with frequenting taverns and places of
dissipation. The best editions of Florus are Duker’s, 2 vols., 8vo,
Leiden, 1722 & 1744; and that of J. Frid. Fischer, 8vo, Lipscomb,
1760.――――Julius, a friend of Horace, who accompanied Claudius Nero
in his military expeditions. The poet has addressed two epistles to
him.
=Fluōnia=, a surname of Juno Lucina, who under that appellation was
invoked by the Roman matrons to stop excessive discharges of blood.
_Festus_, _Lexicon of Festus_.
=Folia=, a woman of Ariminum, famous for her knowledge of poisonous
herbs and for her petulance. _Horace_, epode 5, li. 42.
=Fons solis=, a fountain in the province of Cyrene, cool at mid-day,
and warm at the rising and setting of the sun. _Herodotus_, bk. 4,
ch. 181.
=Fontānus=, a poet mentioned by _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 4, poem 16.
=Fontēia=, a vestal virgin. _Cicero._
=Fontēius Capito=, an intimate friend of Horace. Bk. 1, satire 5,
li. 32.――――A Roman who raised commotions in Germany after the
death of Nero. _Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 1, ch. 7.――――A man who
conducted Cleopatra into Syria by order of Antony. _Plutarch_,
_Antonius_.
=Formiæ=, a maritime town of Campania at the south-east of Caieta. It
was anciently the abode of the Læstrygones, and it became known for
its excellent wines, and was called _Mamurrarum urbs_, from a family
of consequence and opulence who lived there. _Livy_, bk. 8, ch. 14;
bk. 38, ch. 36.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 20, li. 11; bk. 3, ode 17;
bk. 1, satire 5, li. 37.――_Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 6.
=Formiānum=, a villa of Cicero near Formiæ, near which the orator was
assassinated. _Cicero_, _Letters to his Friends_, bk. 11, ltr. 27;
bk. 16, ltr. 10.――_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 16, ch. 10.
=Formio=, now _Risano_, a river of Istria, the ancient boundary of
Italy eastward, afterwards extended to the Arsia. _Pliny_, bk. 3,
chs. 18 & 19.
=Fornax=, a goddess at Rome, who presided over the baking of bread.
Her festivals, called _Fornacalia_, were first instituted by Numa.
_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 2, li. 525.
=Foro Appii=, a people of Italy, whose capital was called _Forum
Appii_. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.