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 903 FISCELLUS MONS. Btill calkd Porto di Fertno, (Plin. I.e.; MeL iL 4. § 6; Strsbu y. pu 241.) This town, which wss od the line of the coast'ixMd that nnited the Via Sdaria with the Fhuninia, is phoed hj the ItiDenuies 24 M. P. from the month ^ the Trnentiu, and 22 from Potentia. (/(in. Ant. pp. 101, 313; Tab. Pent.) Finnam itself, being sitoiitod in the interior on a kiftj hill, ooold never have been on a great line of high road, but the Itinenuries give a cross line passing from Septempeda (S. Severmo) through Urbs Salvia, ilrmnm, and Ascnlom to Castmm Tmentinam. {Itin. AnL p. 316.) [Picemitm.] [E. H. B.] FISCELLUS MONS, a loft^ moontain forming part of the central and most elevated chain of the Apennines. Pliny tells ns that it contained the sonroes of the river Nar; and this statement would lead us to identify it with the group now known as the Monti delta StbUlOf one of the loftiest and most rugged porticxis of the central Apennines [Apen- yiHUs], rising (n the confines of the Sabines and Picenum. Silius Italicus, on the contnirj, appears to connect it with the Yestini, which would indicate a situation somewhat further south. (Plin. iii. 12. s. 17; SiL Ital. viii. 517.) The statement of Pliny would deserve the most credit, but that the passage is confused, and in all probability corrupt (see Sillig, ad loo.)] and it would almost seem as if he con- founded the Nar with the Yehnus, which in fact rises in the lofty mountain group immediately on the confines of the YestiuL [Nab.] Yarro speaks of the Mods Fiscellus and Tetrica (in the same neigh- bourhood) as shounding in wild goats; meaning pro- bably the Ibex or Bouquetin of naturalists, an animal long since extinct in the Apennines. (Yarr. R. R. ii. 1. §5, 3. §3.) [£. H. B.] FIXTUINUM. The Table has a rood from Age- dincum {Sen$) to Fixtuinnm, passing through Riobe and Calagnm (^ChaiUy). DAnville supposes it to be the latinnm of Ptolemy, the chief town of the Meldi. [Iatindm.] [G. L.] FLANATICUS SINUS (PKn. iii. 19), or FLA- NONICUS (*oafwviKhs k6kxos, Steph. B. s. v.), the gulf on the N. W. coast of Libumia, which derived its name from a people called the Flanates SPlin. iii. 21). There was a town called Flanona Plin. 2. c; Ptol. ii. 16. § 2, Fianona), between Alvona and Tarsatica. It is now called Canal del Quam6ro, well known for its dangerous navigation. (Wilkinson, Dalmatia and Montenegro^ vol. i. p. 48 ; Neigebaur, Die Sud-Slaven, p. 249.) [E. B. J.] FLAYIA CAESARIENSI3, mentioned in tiie Notitia as being a division of Britain under the superintendence of a praeset ; the notice being as follows : — Sub diepositione viri spectabiliSj vicarii &fitan' niarum, Conndares Maximae Caeiorientu ; Valentiae. Praetides Britcamiae Primae ; Britamniae Secundae; Flamae CaeearientU. The other notice (for there are only two) is in Rufus Festus {Bremarium^ c. 3) : ^ Sunt in Gallia cum Aquitania et Britanniis decern et octo provinciae . . . in Britannia, Maxima Caesariensis, Flavia, Britannia Prima, Britannia Secunda.'' In the Map of the Monumenta Britannica, the province of Flavia Caesariensis is bounded by the (a) Thames, (6) Wales, (c) the Meney, Don, and FLETIO. Hunber, (<2) the Gennan Ooesn; so Ihat ii prises the midland and eastern counties wai Lincolnshire. The authority fiir these Hnet of de m s tKarii an m onsatisfiKtory. It is only probable, first, tbrt the name was taken from the ooDqnesta made fay Fit- viae Yespasianns; and secoodlyy that the ana tfaas named was as aloresaid. [B. G. L.] FLAYI'NIUM or FLAYINA, a amaU towa of Etmria, known only from Yiigil, w1m> speaJ^ of the " Fkvinia arva," and Silios Italicus, niko calb the name of the town Flavina, — thoogh Servios tdb us it was Flavinium. We may probably infer, fron the names with which it is associated by Yiiigil, thst it was somewhere in the neighbourhood of tJba Fa- liscans and Sonwte; and it has been placed, with some plansibility, at Fiano, between the foot of So- racte and the Tiber, about 25 miles from Boone. (Yirg. Aen. viL 696, and Serv. ad loc ; SiL lad. viii. 492; Gell, Top. of Rome, p. 244.) [E.H. B.] FLAYIOBBrGA l*aavUipiya : prob. Porta- ffolete^f a sea-port town on the N. const of H^yi* Terraconensis, and on the W. side of the estnaiy ef the Nerva {Nervion). From the notice of it is Pliny, we may infer that it received its name, and its rank as a colony, under Yespastan or Ijcoi; having formerly been called Amannm portna^ (Hid. iv. 20. s. 34.) Pliny assigns it to the Yardoli, bet Ptolemy to the Autrigones. (Floras, Esp. S. xxiv. p. 10; Mariana, Hist. Hisp. iv. 4.) fP. &] FLAYIOBRIGANTIUM. [BRXOAanux.] FLAYIONA'YIA. [Astures.] FLAYIO'POLIS (*XaMtAwoXisor*KBuniSiw9Jia a town of Cilida, to the west of Tarsus. From found at Uahak^ it is manifest that thb place pies the site of the ancient Flaviopolis. Bespeetii^ its history scarcely anything is known, and it oumot be ascertained whether it owed its name to the emperor Yespasian, or to some member of the fiunily of Constantine. In later times it was the see of a Christian bishop. (Ptol. v. 8. § 6; Arandell, A$m Minor, voL i. p. 116.) [L. S.1 FLAYICPOLIS. [Crateia.] FLAYIUM SOLYENSE, a town in Noricnm, probably situated in the n^hbourhood of Vinmnai. (Plin. H. N. iii. 27.) In inscriptions (Orelli, n. 1376, foil.) it is called Flavia Solva. According to aoma the modem Sol/eld has derived its name fitHn Sol* vense; but oomp. Linhard, Geeck von iCrom, L p. 326. [L, S.] FLENIO, a pUce which the TaUe fixes oo a nod from Noviomagus {Nymegen) to Lugdunum (Xiddbs). The next station to Lugdunum is Forum HxirS^ ni (^Voorburg); and the next station to Forum Ha- driani is Flenio. The distance between Forum Hadri- ani and Flenio b 12 M. P. D'Anville fixes Flenium at Vlaardingen on the Maa$. This pbM» was probnbly the chief town on the river in the JEtoman time, aa it was certainly for a long time after, and befim the rise of Rottercbm^ which is not mentioned nntil the 14th century. D'Anville estabUshes the fiuA of Flenio being the centre of some road by the evidence of a milestone which was dug up at a place called Monster nesr t'Oraveeande, with the number xii. upon it, a distance which fits no place except Flior- €Ut7gen. The distances in this part of Gallia are in Roman miles. [G. L.] FLETIO, is pUused in the Table on the rmd along the Rhine from Lugdunum Batavorum (LcMfen), to Noviomagus {Nymegen). The position of Alba- nianae {Alj^ien) between lAiea and FletJo is well