Fullinum and Fulginum, a small town of Umbria.
Fulvia lex, was proposed but rejected A.U.C. 628, by Flaccus Fulvius. It tended to make all the people of Italy citizens of Rome.
Fulvia, a bold and ambitious woman who married the tribune Clodius, and afterwards Curio, and at last Marcus Antony. She took a part in all the intrigues of her husband’s triumvirate, and showed herself cruel as well as revengeful. When Cicero’s head had been cut off by order of Antony, Fulvia ordered it to be brought to her, and with all the insolence of barbarity, she bored the orator’s tongue with her golden bodkin. Antony divorced her to marry Cleopatra, upon which she attempted to avenge her wrongs, by persuading Augustus to take up arms against her husband. When this scheme did not succeed, she raised a faction against Augustus, in which she engaged Lucius Antonius her brother-in-law, and when all her attempts proved fruitless, she retired into the east, where her husband received her with great coldness and indifference. This unkindness totally broke her heart, and she soon after died, about 40 years before the christian era. Plutarch, Cicero & Antonius.——A woman who discovered to Cicero the designs of Catiline upon his life. Plutarch, Cicero.
Fulvius, a Roman senator, intimate with Augustus. He disclosed the emperor’s secrets to his wife, who made it public to all the Roman matrons, for which he received so severe a reprimand from Augustus, that he and his wife hanged themselves in despair.——A friend of Caius Gracchus, who was killed in a sedition with his son. His body was thrown into the river, and his widow was forbidden to put on mourning for his death. Plutarch, Gracchus.——Flaccus Censor, a Roman who plundered a marble temple of Juno, to finish the building of one which he had erected to Fortune. He was always unhappy after this sacrilege. Livy, bk. 25, ch. 2.——Servius Nobilior, a Roman consul who went to Africa after the defeat of Regulus. After he had acquired much glory against the Carthaginians, he was shipwrecked at his return with 200 Roman ships. His grandson Marcus was sent to Spain, where he greatly signalized himself. He was afterwards rewarded with the consulship.
Fundānus, a lake near Fundi in Italy, which discharges itself into the Mediterranean. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 3, ch. 96.
Fundi, a town of Italy near Caieta, on the Appian road, at the bottom of a small deep bay called Lacus Fundanus. Horace, bk. 1, satire 5, li. 34.—Livy, bk. 8, chs. 14 & 19; bk. 38, ch. 36.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Cicero, De Lege Agraria contra Rullum, bk. 2, ch. 25.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 4, ch. 59.—Strabo, bk. 5.
Fŭriæ, the three daughters of Nox and Acheron, or of Pluto and Proserpine, according to some. See: [Eumenides].
Fŭrii, a family which migrated from Medullia in Latium, and came to settle at Rome under Romulus, and was admitted among the patricians. Camillus was of this family, and it was he who first raised it to distinction. Plutarch, Camillus.
Fŭria lex, de Testamentis, by C. Furius the tribune. It forbade any person to leave as a legacy more than 1000 asses, except to the relations of the master who manumitted, with a few more exceptions. Cicero, bk. 1, Against Verres, ch. 42.—Livy, bk. 35.
Furīna, the goddess of robbers, worshipped at Rome. Some say that she is the same as the Furies. Her festivals were called Furinalia. Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 3, ch. 8.—Varro, de Lingua Latina, bk. 5, ch. 3.