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 EXCISUM. Vol. i. pp. 158. 186) plaees this district between the Bog and the Dnieper, and identifies the spring of bitter water, of which Herodotus (iv. 81) speaks with the Smaja-toodaj which falls into the Bog, at the riilage of BogopoL Ritter ( Vorhattey p^ 345) connects the bowl seen bj Herodotus (2. c) with the worship of Bnddlia, in acoordanoe with his theory of deriving the religion of Scythia from that of India. The name of the king Aiiantes he refers to Aria, the conntrj of the worshippers of Bnddha in Aria-Bactria, and considers the vessel to have been among the offiarings to that deitj. [E. B. J.] EXCISUM, a pUuie in Oallia, appears in the An- tonine Itin. as the next place after Aginnnm (Agen) on a road from Bordeaux to Aigentomagus (^Ar^ genton). The distance is 13 Gallic leagues from Aginnnm to Ezdsnm. The Table gives the same distance. D'Anville (Nottoe, &o.) says that the site of Ezcisnm is Viile Neuoe, which has succeeded to another and an older place, the monastery of which was named Ezsdense in the titles of the abbey of MoUeac. [G. L.] EZION GEBER (JT^viiiv Tditp, LXX.). [Bu- kkmice; Ajclaha; Eulth.] F. FA'BABIS,a river of the Sabines, mentioned under that name by Vhgil {Aen, vii. 715), who is copied by Vibius Sequester (p. 10> and Sidonius Apollinaiis {£p. i. 5), but which, according to Servius, is the same as the Farfarus of Ovid (^MeL xiv. 330). Tbb last is unquestionably the stream now called Far/oj which flows into the Tiber, a few miles above the Corret€f and about 35 miles from Bome. It gives name to the celebrated Abbey of Far/af which was founded in A.D. 681, and during the middle hii&i was one of the most famous monasteries in Italy. (Gell, Top, of Rome, p. 232.) [E. H. B.] FA'BIA, a town of Latinm on the Alban Hills, known to us only from the mention, hy Pliny, of the " Fabieoses in Monte Albano " (iiL 5. s. 9> It is at least a plausible conjecture, that they occupied the site of the modern vilbge of Boeoa di Papa, high lip on the Alban Mount, and on the road which led from the lake to the temple of Jupiter, on the highest summit (Gell, Top. of Rome, p. 373 ; Nibby, Dwi- lorat, vol. iii. p. 20.) [E. H. B.] FABRATE'RIA {Mpatr^pfa, Strab. v. p. 237: Eth, Fabratemus: S, Giowmni in Carico), a city of Latium, situated on the Via Latina, between Fmsino and Aquinum,and near the oonfluenceof the Liris with the Trerus or Sacoo. (Strab. L e. ; IHn. AnL pp. 303, 305.) It was origimdly a Volscian city, but in b. a 329 it is mentioned as sending deputies to Rome, to phu*e itself under the protection of the republic against the Samnites, who were at tiiat time pressing on in the valley of the Liris. (Liv. viii. 19.) We hear no more of it till n. a 124, when it was one of the places at which a Roman colony was established by C. Grsochus. (VelL Pat i. 15.) From this cir- cumstance probably arose the distinction, recognised both by Pliny and by inscriptions, between the ** F»- bratemi novi" and ** Fabratemi veteres** (Plin. iiL 5. s. 9 ; Orell. Ineer. 101, 102), the ktter being the original inhabitants of the municipium. It is un- certain whether the colony referred to by the Liber de Coloniis is the same with that of Gracchus, or one of hiter date. {Lib, Colon, p. 234.) But though . the colonists and the old inhabitants appear to have I FAESULAE. 889 formed two separate municipal bodies, it is not cer- tain whether they occupied different sites. It is clear that the Fabrateria of Strabo and the Itine- raries, which they place on the Via Latina, could not have occupied the site of the modem Falvaierra, a village on a hill some distance to the S. of the line of that road : and there seems little doubt from the in- scriptions found there that the ruins still visible on the right bank of the Luis, Just below its junction with the Tolero or Saceo, are thoee of Fabrateria Nova. These ruins, which have been regarded by many writere as those of Fregellae [Fbboellab], are situated in the tenritofy of S. Giovanni in Carieo, about three miles firam Fahaterra and four from Ceprano : they indicate a town of considerable im- portance, of which portions of the city walls are still extant, as well as the ramains of a temple, and frag- ments of other buildings of reticulated masonry. Numerous portions of pavements, mosaics, and other ancient remains have been also found on the spot (Romanelli, vol. iii. p. 380 ; Chaupy, Maison dHo^ race, voL iii. p. 476 ; Mommsen, Ineer. Regn. Neap. p. 234.) The site of Fabrateria Vetns is uncertain t it may have occupied the same position as the modem FaimUerra ; but the discovery of inscriptions relat* ing to it at Ceocano, more than 12 miles higher up the valley of the Tolero, renden it probable that its site must be transferred thither. (Monunsen, L c.) CScero incidentally notices Fabrateria as a town on the Via Latina, where Antony and his friends had concocted pkte against him (Cie. ad Fam. ix. 24): and Juvenal mentions it as a quiet and cheap country town, like the neighbouring Sara, where a good house could be obtained at a moderate price ( Juv. iii. 224). Both these notices probably relate to the new town of the name. [E. H. B.J FAESULAE (^auroSXai, PtoL, App.; «a(iroAa, Pol; £ih, FaesuUnns: Fieeole), an ancient and im- portant city of Etruria, situated on a hill rising above the valley of the Amus, about 3 miles from the modem city of Florence, The existing remains sufficiently prove that it must have been a pUoe of consideration as an Etruscan dty, and Silius Italicus alludes to it as eminent for skill in divination (viii. 477), a chaiacter which could never have attached to a phu» not of remote antiquity, but no mention of it is found in history previous to the Roman dominion, nor do we know at what time or on what terms it submitted to the Roman yoke. The first mention of its name occnn in b. c. 225, during the great Gaulish War, when the invaden were attacked by the Roman army on their mareh from Clusium towards Faesulae. (Pol. ii. 25.) It again appean in the Second Punic War as the place m the neighbourhood of which Hannibal encamped after he had crossed the Apen- nines and forced bis way through the marshes in the lower valley of the Amns, and from whence he advanced to meet Flaminius (who was then encamped at Arretium), before the battle of Trssymene. (Id. iii. 80, 82 ; Liv. xxii. 3.) Faesulae is described as at that time immediately adJMning the marshes in question, and it is probable that the basin of the Amo just below Florence was then still marshy and subject to inundations. [Asifus]. According to Floma (iii. 18. § 11), Faesulae was taken and ravaged with fire and sword during the Social War (B.C. 90—89): but it seems more probable that this did not take place till the great devastatim of Etmria by Sulla, a few yean later. It is certain that after that event Faesulae was one of the places selected by the dictator for the establishmeDt ol a