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.