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Rh 156 FLACCUS. iug to invoke. (Duker, de Vet. Id. Latin, p. 156.) It is not unlikely that Paulus and Cen- sorinus refer to the same work of Granius, under different names, for the religious laws of the kings doubtless remained longest in use ; and Papirius, who was himself a pontiff, is said by Dionysius of Halicarnassus (iii. 36) to have collected the sacred laws after the expulsion of the kings. !p.eligious ceremonies, in the early period of Roman history, may well be supposed to have constituted a large portion of the technical law, and to have been connected with the principal transactions of life. Servius (ad Aen. xii. 836) cites a lejs Papiria, and Macrobius (Sat. iii. 1 1 ) cites a passage of the Jus Papirianumt which, from the Latinity, may reasonably be ascribed to Granius Flaccus. The passage points out the distinction between temple furniture and temple ornaments, and shows that to the former class belongs the consecrated table (" inensa, in qua epulae, libationesque, et stipes re- ponuntur ") which is used as an altar (" in templo arae usum obtinet "). P. P. Justi, with much probability {Specim. Ohserv. Grit. c. 11, Vindob. 1765), attributes to Flaccus (Granius, not the grammarian Verrius Flaccus,) a religious fragment which the ordinary text of Servius {ad Aen. xii. 233) ascribes to an unknown Elaus. Other frag- ments of Granius are preserved by Festus (s. v. Ricae), Macrobius (Sat. i. 18), Arnobius (Adv. Gentes, iii. p. 69, 72, ed. Elmenhorst), and Priscian (Ars Gram. viii. p. 793, ed. Putsch). Granius Flaccus is not to be confounded with Granius Licinianus, who is cited by Servius (ad Aen. i. 732), and Macrobius (Sat. i. 16). (Lu- dov. Carrio, Emendat. i. 4 ; Maiansius, ad XXX Idorum Frag. Comment, vol. ii. p. 129 — 141 ; Dirksen, Brnckstucke, &c. p. 61.) [J. T. G.] FLACCUS, HORA'TIUS. [Horatius.] FLACCUS, HORDEO'NIUS, was consular legate of the army of Upper Germany at the time of Nero's death (a. d. 68). He was despised by his army, for he was old, a cripple, without firm- ness, and without influence. When his soldiers renounced allegiance to Galba (Jan. 1. 69 A. D.), he had not the courage to oppose them, though he did not share in their treason. He was left in command of the left bank of the Rhine by Vitel- lius, when the latter marched to Italy ; but he delayed the march of the forces which Vitellius sent for from the Gerraanies, partly through fear of the insurrection of the Batavians, which soon after broke out, and partly because in his heart he fa- voured Vespasian. He even requested Civilis to assist in retaining the legions, 'by pretending to raise a rebellion among the Batavians ; which Civilis did, not in pretence, but in earnest. [Ci- vilis.] Flaccus took no notice of the first move- ments of the Batavians, but their success soon compelled him to make at least a show of op- position, and he sent against them his legate, Mummius Lupercus, who was defeated. By the proofs he gave of his unwillingness or inability to put down the insurrection, and by receiving a letter from Vespasian, he exasperated his soldiers, who compelled him to give up the command to VocuLA. Shortly afterwards, in a fresh mutiny during the absence of Vocula, he was accused of treachery by HerenniusGallus, and, as it seems, was bound by the soldiers, but he was released again by Vocula. He still however retained suffi- cient influence to persuade the army to take the FLACCUS. oath to Vespasian, when the news arrived of the battle of Cremona. But the soldiers were still mutinous ; and on the arrival of two fresh legions, they demanded a donative out of some money which they knew had been sent by Vespasian. Hordeonius yielded to the demand : the money was spent in feasting and drinking ; the soldiers, thus excited, recalled to mind their old quarrel with Hordeonius, and, in the middle of the night, they dragged him from his bed and killed him. (Tac. Hist. i. 9, 52, 54. 56, ii. 57, 97, iv. 13, 18, 19, 24, 25, 27, 31, 36, 55, v. 26; Plut. Galha, 10, 18, 22.) [P. S.] FLACCUS, MUNA'TIUS, one of the conspi- rators against Q. Cassius Longinus, praetor of His- pania Ulterior, b. c. 48. Munatius Flaccus com- menced the attack upon Cassius Longinus by killing one of the lictors and wounding the legate, Q. Cassius. Like all the persons involved in that con- spiracy, Flaccus was not a Roman, but an Italian. (Hirt. Bell. Alex. 52) [L. S.] FLACCUS, NORBA'NUS. 1. C. Norbanus Flaccus. In b. c. 42 he and Decidius Saxa were sent by Octavian and Antony with eight legions into Macedonia, and thence they proceeded to Philippi to operate against Brutus and Cassius. They encamped in the neighbourhood of Philippi, and occupied a position which prevented the repub- licans advancing any further. By a stratagem of Brutus and Cassius, Norbanus was led to quit his position, but he discovered his mistake in time to recover his former position. The republicans advancing by another and longer road, Norbanus withdrew with his army towards Amphipolis, and the republicans, without pursuing Norbanus, en- camped near Philippi. When Antony arrived, he was glad to find that Amphipolis was secured, and having strengthened its garrison under Norbanus, he proceeded to Philippi. In B. c. 38, C. Norbar nus Flaccus was consul with App. Claudius Pul- cher. The C. Norbanus Flaccus, who was consul B. c. 24 with Octavian, was probably a son of the one here spoken of. (Appian, B. C. iv. 87, 103, &c., 106, «&c. ; Dion Cass, xxxviii. 43, xlvii. 35, xlix. 23, liii. 28 ; Plut. Brut. 38.) 2. C. Norbanus Flaccus, was consul in a. d. 15, the birth year of Vitellius. (Tac. Ann. i. 54 ; Suet. Vit. 3.) [L. S.] FLACCUS, PE'RSIUS. [Persius.] FLACCUS, POMPO'NIUS. 1. L. Pompo- Nius Flaccus, was consul in a. d. 17, and in a. d. 51 he was legate in Upper Germany, and fought successfully against the Chatti, for which he was honoured with the ensigns of a triumph. Tacitus says that his fame as a general was not very great, and that it was eclipsed by his renown as a poet. (Tac. Ann. ii. 41, xii. 27, 28.) 2. PoMPONius Flaccus, was appointed in a. d. 19 by Tiberius to undertake the administration of Moesia, and to operate against king Rha- scupolis, who had killed Cotys, his brother and colleague in the kingdom. Velleius (ii. 129) gives him very high praise ; saying that he was a vir natus ad omnia quae recte facienda sunt, simplicique virtute merens semper, non captans gloriam. He was, however, a friend of Tiberius, with whom, on one occasion, he spent one whole night and two days in uninterrupted drinking. (Suet. Tib. 42.) He died in A. D. 34, as propraetor of Syria, where he had been for many years. (Tac. Ann. ii. 32, vi. 27.) Velleius calls him a consular, whence some