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 FALISCL from tbe " Campanus ager " by tlie Vulturnus. It i« clear, therefore, that he used the tenn in the full extent given to it above. Pliny, on the contraiy, appears to apply the name in a much more restricted Bense : he describes the " ager Falemns " aa lying " un the left hand as one proceeded from the Pons Campanus to the Colonia Urbana of Sulla " (xiv. 6. a. 8); which would exclude all the space between the Via Ap|Ha and the Vulturnus. The exact limits of the district cannot be fixed with certainty: the name was probably used in a narrower or a wider sense, sometimes with reference to the especial wine- growing district, sometimes to the whole of the fertile plain on the N. of the Vulturnus. Pliny tells ns that the Falemian wine was in his day already declining in quality, from want of care in the cultivation : the choicest kind was that called Fanstianum, from a village of that name, probably so called in honour of Sulla, who had established a colony in this district. (Plin. xiv. 6.) Immediately a^oining the Falemus ager was the " Statanus ager," the wine of which is already noticed by Strabo, and this had in the time of Pliny attained even to a superiority over the true Falemian. (Plin. L c. ; Stra'o. V. pp. 234, 243; Athen. i. p. 26.) The exact situation of this district is unknown : but it appears to have borderad on tbe Falemian territoiy on the one side and that of Cales on tbe other. Pliny also mentions (L c.) a village called Cediae or Caediae in this district, which he places 6 miles from Sinuessa: it is evidently the same place which gave name to the -" Caeditiae Tabemae ** on the Via Appia, mentioned by Festus (p. 45. ed. Miiller). An inscription preserved in the neighbouring town of Carmt^ notices the ** coloni Caedidanei " together with the SinoesanL (Mommsen, /. jH, N. 4021.) [E. H. B.] FALISGI. [Falkrh.] FAIJUM FORTUNAE (*wop ^fnvvvai, Ptol.; T^ 'Uphf T^t Ti^x^f, Strab. : Eth. Fanestris : F(mo a city of Umbria, situated on the coast of the Adriatic on the left bank of the river Metaums, between Pisaumm (^Petaro) and Sena Gallica {SiniffagUd). It was here that the Via Flaminia, descending the valley of the Metaums from Foram Sempronii, joined the line of road which led along the coast from Ancona and Picennm to Ariminum. (/^ifi. AnL pp. 100, 126.) It is evident that the town must originally have derived its name from an ancient temple of Fortune: but of this we have no account, nor do we know whether it existed prior to the Itoman conquest of this part of Italy. There raubt, however, have soon grown up a considerable town upon the spot, as soon as ^e Flaminian Way was completed ; and in the Civil War of B. a 49, we find it mentioned by Caesar as a place of im- portance which he hastened to occupy with one cohort, immediately after his advance to Ariminum. (Caes. B, C. ill.) For the same reason, in a.d. 69, the generals of Vespasian made it their bead- quarters for some time before they ventured to attempt the passage of the Apennines, and advance upon Rome. (Tac. ffisL ili. 50.) These are the only occasions on which it figures in history; but we kam that it received a ccxiony under Augustus, and appears to have become from thenceforth one of the most flourishing and considerable towns in this part of Italy. Its colonial rank is attested by inscriptions, on which it bears the title of ** Colonia Julia Fanestris,** or ** Colonia Julia Fanum For- tuuac," as well as by Mela and Pliny, (i'lln. iii. FANUM MINERVAE. 893 14. 8. 19 ; Mel. ii. 4. § 5 : Lib, Colon, p. 256 ; Orell. Inter. 83, 1535, 3143, 3969.) It was at the period of the establishment of this colony that the city was adorned with a basilica, of which Vitravius, as we learn from himself, was the architect (Vitrav. v. 1. § 6), and to the same period belongs the triumphal arch of white marble, erected in honour of Augustus, which still forms one oi the gates of the city on the Flaminian Way (Eustace, Class. Tow, vol. i. p. 287 ; Orell. huer. 602). Claudian, Sidonius, and the Itineraries at- test the continued importance of Fanum, as it was commonly called, throughout the period, and it i» probable that, like most of the cities on the Fh- minian and Aemilian Ways, it retained some degree of prosperity long after the other towns of the pro- vince had fallen into decay. (Claudian, m VL Com. Hon, 500 ; Jtm, AnL pp. 126, 615; Sidon. Apoll. Ep. i. 5). But the city sufiered severely in the Gothic wars, and its walls, which had been erected by Augustus, were destroyed by Vitiges. (Procop. B. G, iii. 11.) The modem city of Fano contains about 8000 inhabitants; it has no other relics of antiquity besides the arch above mentioned, and a few inscriptions. [E. H. B.] FANUM FUGITIVI, a station on the Flaminian Way, between Interamna {Terns) and Spoletium {Spoleto), {Itin, Hier, p. 613.) It seems to have coincided with the spot now called la Somma, at the highest point of the pass between Interamna and Spoletium. [E. H. B.] FANUM MARTIS, m GaIHa Transalpina. 1. Mentioned in the Not. Imp., gave the name of Pagus Fanomartensis to a great part of the modem Hainau in the kingdom of Belgium. The Fanum Martis was in the territory of the Nervii, and in the division of Belgica Secunda. Fammars near ValencienneSf in the French department of Nord, is the site of Fanum Martis. Fanum was the residence of the praefectus of the Laeli Nervii, as we may conclude from the Notitia. The remuns of a large building of the Roman period have been discovered at Fammars. 2. The Ant. Itin. places a Fanum Martis on the road from Alauna to Condate Redonum {Jtennes^f between Cosedia and Fines. D*Anville conjectures that Fanum Martis may be the commanding po- sition of Mont-martin, which is on the line of the Roman road. Walckenaer fixes it at a place called Tanis ; and Ukert (p. 487), at Le FaoueL The position we may assume to be unknown. The Table places Fanum Martis between Reginea and Condate. If the position of Reginea were cer- tain, perhaps that of Fanum Martis might be found. D*Anville supposes this Fanum Martis not to be tlie same as that mentioned in the Antonine Itin. between Alauna and Condate, and he fixes it at Dinan ; but Walckenaer, who supposes Reginea to be Granville, fixes Fanum Martis at Tanie, [G. L.] FANUM MINERVAE, in GallU, is placed by the Anton. Itin. on the road from Durocortonun {Beims) to Divoduram {Metz), and 14 Gallic leagues from Durocortoram. The same place seems to be intended by the cormpt word Tenomia, as D'Anville has it, or Fanomia, as Walckenaer has it, in the Table, which places it 19 from Beims. We may either correct the distance 14 in the Itin., or suppMQse a station to be omitted, for the purpose of making the iUn. agree with the Table, which seems to have the trae distance. The site of tho^ Fanum is supposed to be ChppCf