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Fulvia Gens (of which the older term was Foulvia), plebeian, but one of the most illustrious
Roman gentes. According to Cicero (pro Planc. 8, comp. Phil. iii. 6) and Pliny
(H. N. vii. 44), this gens had come to Rome from Tusculum, although some members
must have remained in their native place, since Fulvii occur at Tusculum as late
as the time of Cicero. The gens Fulvia was believed to have received its sacra
from Hercules after he had accomplished his twelve labours. The cognomens which
occur in this gens in the time of the republic are:Bambalio, centumalus, Curvus,
Flaccus, Gillio, Ntacca, Nobilior, Paetinus and Veratius or Neratius.
Fulvia, a daughter of M. Fulvius Bambalio of Tusculum, by Sempronia, a grand-daughter of Tuditanus. She was first married to P.Clodius, by whom she had a daughter, Claudia, afterwards the wife of Caesar Octavianus. When Clodius was murdered, and his body was carried to Rome, and there exposed in the atrium of his house, Fulvia, with great lamentations, showed her husband's wounds to the multitude that came to see the body; and she thus inflamed their desire of taking vengeance on the murderer. She afterwards married C. Scribonius Curio; and after his fall in Africa, in B. C. 49, she lived for some years as a widow, until about B. C. 44, she married M. Antony, by whom she became the mother of two sons. Up to the time of her marrying Antony, she had been a woman of most dissolute conduct, but henceforth she clung to Antony with the most passionate attachment, and her only ambition was to see her husband occupy the first place in the republic, at whatever cost that position might be purchased. When Antony was declared a public enemy, she addressed the most humble entreaties to the senate, praying that they might alter their resolution. Her brutal conduct during the fearful proscriptions of B. C. 43 is well known; she gazed with delight upon the heads of Cicero and Rufus, the victims of her husband. In those same days of terror a number of wealthy Roman ladies were ordered to deliver up their treasures to the triumvirs, whereupon they called upon the female relatives of the triumvirs, and petitioned them to interfere with the triumvirs, and endeavour mitigate the order. When the ladies came to the house of Fulvia, they were treated most haughtily and ignominiously. In B. C. 40, while Antony was revelling with Cleopatra in all the luxuries of the East, and Octavianus was rewarding his soldiers with lands in Italy, Fulvia, stimulated partly by jealousy and the desire of drawing Antony back to Italy, and partly by her hostility towards Octavianus, resolved upon raising a commotion in Italy. She induced L. Antonius, her husband's brother, to come forwards as the protector of those who were oppressed and reduced to poverty by the colonies of Octavianus. He was soon joined by others, who were more sincere than himself. He took his post at Praeneste whither he was followed by Fulvia, who pretended that the lives of her children were threatened by Lepidus. She afterwards followed L. Antonius to Perusia, and endeavoured to rouse the inhabitants of the north of Italy to assist him, while he was besieged at Perusia by Octavianus. When Perusia fell into the hands of Octavianus, by the treachery of L. Antonius, Fulvia was permitted to escape, and went to Brundusium, where she embarked for Greece. Her husband, who had in the meantime been informed of the war of Perusia and its result, was on his way to Italy. He met Fulvia at Athens, and censured her severely for having caused the disturbance. It is said that, from grief at his rough treatment, she was taken ill, and in this state he left her at Sicyon while he went to Brundusium. Her feelings were so deeply wounded by her husband's conduct, that she took no care of herself, and soon after died at Sicyon, B. C. 40. The news of her death came very opportunely for the triumvirs, who now formed a reconciliation, which was cemented by Antony marrying the noble-minded Octavia. (Plut. Anton. 9, &c.; Appian, B. C. iii. 51, iv. 29. 32, v. 14, 19, 21, 33, 43, 50, 52, 55, 59, 62 ; Dion. Cass. xlvi. 56, xlvii. 8, &c.; xlviii. 3-28 ; Vell. Pat. ii. 74; Cic. Phil. ii. 5, 31, iii. 6, ad Att. xiv. 12; Val. Max. ix. 1)
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
L. Fulvius Curius, was consul in B. C. 322, with Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus. He is the first Fulvius that we meet with in the history of Rome, and is said to have been consul at Tusculumin theyear in which that town revolted against Rome; and on going over to the Romans to have been invested there with the same office, and to have triumphed over his own countrymen. He and his colleague were further said, in some annals, to have conquered the Samnites, and to have triumphed over them. In B. C. 313 he was magister equitum to the dictator, L. Aemilius, whom he accompanied to besiege Saticula. (Plin. H. N. vii. 44; Liv. viii. 38, ix. 21)
L. Fulvius Curius Paetinus, consul in B. C. 305, in the place of T. Minucius, who had fallen in the war against the Samnites. According to some annalists, M. Fulvius took the town of Bovianum, and celebrated a triumph over the Samnites. (Liv. ix. 44.)
Furia Gens, patrician. This was a very ancient gens, and in early times its name was written
Fusia, according to the common interchange of the letters r and s (Liv. iii. 4),
as in the name Valerius and Valesius. History leaves us in darkness as to the
origin of the Furia gens; but, from sepulchral inscriptions found at Tusculum
(Gronov. Thesaur. vol. xii. p. 24), we see that the name Furius was very common
in that place, and hence it is generally inferred that the Furia gens, like the
Fulvia, had come to Rome from Tusculum. As the first member of the gens that occurs
in history, Sex. Furius Medullinus, B. C. 488, is only five years later than the
treaty of isopolity which Sp. Cassius concluded with the Latins, to whom the Tusculans
belonged, the supposition of the Tusculan origin of the Furia gens does not appear
at all improbable. The cognomens of this gens are Aculeo, Bibaculus, Brocchus,
Camillus, Crassipes, Fusus, Luscus, Medulinninus, Pacilus, Philus and Purpureo.
The only cognomens that occur on coins are Brocchus, Crassipes, Philus, Purpureo.
There are some persons bearing the gentile name Furius, who were plebeians, since
they are mentioned as tribunes of the plebs; and those persons either had gone
over from the patricians to the plebeians, or they were descended from freedmen
of some family of the Furii, as is expressly stated in the case of one of them.
Mamilia Gens, plebeian, was originally one of the most distinguished families
in Tusculum, and indeed in the whole of Latium. It is first mentioned in the time
of the Tarquins; and it was to a member of this family, Octavins Mamilius, that
Tarquinius Superbus betrothed his daughter. The Mamilii traced their name and
origin to the mythical Mamilia, the daughter of Telegonus, who was regarded as
the founder of Tusculum, and was the reputed son of Ulysses and the goddess Circe.
(Liv. i. 49; Dionys. iv. 45 ; Festus, p. 130, ed. Muller.) In B. C. 458 the Roman
citizenship was given to L. Mamilius on account of his marching unsummoned two
years before to the assistance of the city when it was at tacked by Herdonius.
(Liv. iii. 18, 29.) But although the Mamilii had obtained the Roman franchise,
it was some time before any of the members of the house obtained any of the higher
offices of the state: the first who received the consulship was L. Mamilius Vitulus,
in B. C. 265, the year before the commencement of the first Punic war. The gens
was divided into three families, LISIETANUS, TURRINUS, and VITULUS, of which tile
two latter were the most ancient and the most important. Limetanus, however, is
the only surname which occurs on coins.
The mythical origin of the Mamilia gens, which has been mentioned
above, is evidently referred to in the annexed coin. The obverse represents the
head of Mercury or Hermes, who was the ancestor of Ulysses, and the reverse Ulysses
himself, clad in a mean and humble dress, that he might not be recognized by the
suitors. (Eckhel, vol. v. pp. 242, 243.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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