Sextus Julius Frontīnus, a celebrated geometrician, who made himself known by the books which he wrote on aqueducts and stratagems dedicated to Trajan. He ordered at his death that no monument should be raised to his memory, saying memoria nostri durabit, si vitam meruimus. The best edition of Frontinus is that of Oudendorp, 8vo, Leiden, 1779.
Fronto, a preceptor of Marcus Antoninus, by whom he was greatly esteemed.——Julius, a learned Roman, who was so partial to the company of poets, that he lent them his house and gardens, which continually re-echoed the compositions of his numerous visitors. Juvenal, satire 1, li. 12.
Frŭsĭno, a small town of the Volsci on one of the branches of the Liris. Juvenal, satire 3, li. 223.—Livy, bk. 10, ch. 1.—Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 399.—Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 11, ltrs. 4 & 13.
Fūcĭnus, a lake of Italy in the country of the Marsi, at the north of the Liris, attempted to be drained by Julius Cæsar and afterwards by Claudius, by whom 30,000 men were employed for 11 years to perforate a mountain to convey the water into the Liris, but with no permanent success. The lake, surrounded by a ridge of high mountains, is now called Celano, and is supposed to be 47 miles in circumference, and not more than 12 feet deep on an average. Pliny, bk. 36, ch. 15.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 56.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 759.
Fufĭdius, a wretched usurer, &c. Horace, bk. 1, satire 2.
Fufius Geminus, a man greatly promoted by the interest of Livia, &c. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 5, chs. 1 & 2.
Fugalia, festivals at Rome to celebrate the flight of the Tarquins.
Fulgĭnātes (singular, Fulginas), a people of Umbria, whose chief town was Fulginum, now Foligno. Silius Italicus, bk. 8, li. 462.—Pliny, bk. 1, ch. 4; bk. 3, ch. 14.
Q. Fulgīnus, a brave officer in Cæsar’s legions, &c. Cæsar, Civil War.
Fulgōra, a goddess at Rome who presided over lightning. She was addressed to save her votaries from the effects of violent storms of thunder. Augustine, City of God, bk. 6, ch. 10.