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Rh FAUSTINA. her honours, for she died, a. d. 141, in the thirty- seventh year of her age. The profligacy of her life, and the honours with which she was loaded both before and after her decease, have been noticed under Antoninus Pius. The medals bearing her name and effigy exceed, both in number and variety of types, those stnick in honour of any other royal personage after death. One of these represents the temple dedicated to her memory in the Via Sacra, which still remains in a very perfect state. (Capi- tolin. Anton. Pius, 3, 5 ; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 37.) FAUSTULUS. 141 Coin of Faustina senior, commemorating the institution of the Puellae Alimentariae Faus- tinae. See Antoninus Pius, p. 212, 2. Annia Faustina, or Faustina Junior, was the daughter of the elder Faustina. During the life of Hadrian she was betrothed to the son of Aelius Caesar ; but upon the accession of her father, Antoninus Pius, the match was broken off, in con- sequence of the extreme youth of L. Verus, and it was fixed that she should become the bride of M, Aurelius, although the marriage was not so- lemnized imtil A. D. 145 or 146. She died in a village on the skirts of Mount Taurus, in the year A. D. 175, having accompanied the emperor to Syria, when he visited the East for the purpose of restoring tranquillity after the rebellion of Avidius Cassius, which is said to have been excited by her intrigues [M. Aurelius ; Avidius CassiusJ. Her profligacy was so open and infamous, that the good nature or blindness of her husband, who che- rished her fondly while alive, and loaded her with honours after her death, appear truly marvellous. (Dion Cass. Ixxi. 10, 22, 29, 31 ; Capitolin. M. Aurel. 6, 19, 26 ; Eutrop. viii. 5 ; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 76.) coin op FAUSTINA JUNIOR. 3. DoMiTiA Faustina, a daughter of M. Au- relius and the younger Faustina. (Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 76.) 4. Annia Faustina, a grand-daughter or great- grand-daughter of M. Aurelius, was the third of the numerous wives of Elagabalus. The marriage. COOJ OP annia FAUSTINA WIFE OF ELAGABALUS. as we infer from medals, took place about A. D. 221, but a divorce must speedily have followed. (Dion Cass. Ixxix. 5 ; Herodian, v. 14 ; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 261.) 5. Maxima Faustina, the third iJvile of Con- stantius, whom he married at Antioch in A. D. 360, a short period before his death. She gave birth to a posthumous daughter, who received the name of Flavia Maxima Constantia, and was eventually united to the emperor Gratian. We know nothing with regard to the family of this Faustina, but she appears again in history along with her child, as one of the supporters of the rebel Procopius, who made good use of the presence of the youthful princess to inflame the zeal of his soldiers by re- kindling their enthusiasm for the glories of the house from which she sprung. (Ducange, Fam. Byz. p. 48, 69 ; Amm. Marc. xxi. 6. § 4, 15. § 6, xxvi. 7. UO, 9. § 8.) [W. R.] FAUSTI'NUS, a presbyter, who adhered to the sect established by the intemperate Lucifer of Cagliari, flourished towards the close of the fourth century. Of his personal history we know almost nothing, except in so far as it can be gleaned from three tracts which bear his name. 1. Faustini de Trinitate s. De Fide contra Aria- nos ad Flacillam Imperatricem Libri VII. This treatise, the subject of which is sufficiently ex- plained by the title, has been erroneously ascribed to the Spanish bishop Gregorius. It is divided into seven books, or rather chapters, and must have been composed not later than A. D. 385, since Flacilla, the first wife of Theodosius, died in that year. 2. Faustini Fides Theodosio Imperatori ohlata. A short Confession of Faith, written probably be- tween the years 379-381, at which period Faus- tinus appears to have resided at Eleutheropolis. 3. Libeilus Precum, presented to Valentinianua and Theodosius about a. d. 384. It contains a defence of the tenets of the Luciferiani, craves the protection of the emperors, and is believed to have been the joint work of Faustinas and Marcellinus. Attached to it we find a Praefatio, from which we learn that the authors had twenty years before taken a most active part in favour of Ursinus against Damasus [Damasus], and had suffered much persecution in consequence. This introduc- tion, which is extremely violent in its representa- tions, appears not to have been drawn up until after the publication of the favourable rescript by Theodosius to the petitions of the Libeilus. The De Trinitate was first printed in the Ortho- doxograph. of Heroldus, fol. Basil. 1555; the Libeilus, by Sirmond (8vo. Paris, 1650, and Sir- mond, Oper. vol. i. p. 230. fol. Paris, 1696), to- gether with the rescript of Theodosius and ancient testimonies regarding the controversy between Da- masus and Ursinus ; the Fides by Quesnel in the Canones ei Constitut. Feci. Pom., vol. ii. p. 138, 4to. Paris, 1675. The collected works of Fausti- nus will be found in the Bibl. Max. Patrum, Lug- dun. 1677, vol. V. p. 637, and under their best form in the Bihl. Patrum of Galland, vol. viii. p. 441. (Gennadius, de Viris III. 11.) [W. R.] FAU'STULUS, the royal shepherd of Amulius and husband of Acca Lauren tia. He found Ro- mulus and Remus as they were nursed by the she- wolf, and carried the twins to his wife to be brought up. (Liv. i. 5.) He was believed to have been killed, like Remus, by near relatives, while he was endeavouring to settle a dispute between