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ARPINA (Ancient city) LAZIO
Fadius, the name of a family of the municipium of Arpinum. Some of the members of it settled
at Rome, while others remained in their native place. The Fadii appear in history
about the time of Cicero, but none of them rose to any higher office than the
tribuneship. The only cognomens that occur in the family, are Gallus and Rufus.
The following have no surnames:
1. C. or Q. Fadius, for in one of the two passages in which he is mentioned, he
is called Caius, and in the other Quintus. He was a libertinus, and seems to have
possessed considerable wealth, for his daughter, who was married to M. Antonius,
is called a rich woman (Cic. Philipp. ii. 2, ad Att. xvi. 11).
2. L. Fadius, was aedile in his native place of Arpinum, in B. C. 44 (Cic. ad
Att. xv. 15, 17, 20).
3. Sex. Fadius, a disciple of the physician Nicon, but otherwise unknown. (Cic.
ad Fam. vii. 20).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Gratidius. M. Gratidius, proposed in B. C. 115 a lex tabellaria at Arpinum, which was opposed by M. Tullius Cicero, the grandfather of the orator, who was married to Gratidia, the sister of M. Gratidius. The question respecting the lex tabellaria was referred to the consul of the year, M. Aemilius Scaurus, who seems to have decided in favour of Cicero, for it is said that Scaurus praised his sentiments and his courage. (Cic. de Leg. ii. 16.) According to Cicero (Brut. 45), Gratidius was a clever accuser, well versed in Greek literature, and a person with great natural talent as an orator; he was further a friend of the orator M. Antonius, and accompanied him as his praefect to Cilicia, where he was killed. In the last-mentioned passage Cicero adds, that Gratidius spoke against C. Fimbria, who had been accused of extortion. (Val. Max. viii. 5.2.) This accusation seems to refer to the administration of a province, which Fimbria undertook in B. C. 103 (for he was consul in B. C. 104), so that the accusation would belong to B. C. 102, and more particularly to the beginning of that year, for in the course of it M. Antonius undertook the command against the pirates, and M. Gratidius, who accompanied him, was killed. (Comp. J. Obsequens, Prodig. 104; Drumann, Gesch. Roms, vol. i., who, however, places the campaign of M. Antonius against the pirates one year too early.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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