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 FABKICIUS let loose upon him. In reward of his integrity the king allowed the captives to go to Rome for the celebration of the Saturnalia, on prom- ise of returning after the festival. In 279 Fa- bricius fought in the battle of Asculum, which, though nominally a victory for Pyrrhus, was regarded by him almost as a defeat. In the next year he commanded again as consul, and exposed to his enemy the treachery of his physician, who offered to poison him; upon which Pyrrhus is said to have exclaimed, " It is easier to turn the sun from its career than Fabricius from his honesty," and to have freed all his captives without ransom. When Pyr- rhus evacuated Italy, Fabricius was engaged in subduing his allies. As censor in 275 he de- prived P. Cornelius Eufinus of his seat in the senate, for having in his household 10 pounds of silver plate. Like Curius Dentatus, he spurned the presents of the Samnite ambas- sadors, and died so poor that the senate had to provide marriage portions for his daughters. He was buried within the walls of Rome, the prohibitory law of the twelve tables having been suspended in his honor. FABRICIUS, Georg, a German scholar, born in Chemnitz, Saxony, April 24, 1516, died in Meissen, July 13, 1571. He was director of the college of Meissen. His edition of Horace (2 vols., Basel, 1555) is still esteemed. He wrote Latin poetry with great purity, and in his sacred poems he would employ no words which had the slightest flavor of paganism. Baumgarten-Crusius wrote a sketch of his life and writings (Meissen, 1839). FABRICIUS, or Fabrizio, Girolamo, surnamed from his birthplace AB AQTJAPENDENTE, an Italian anatomist and surgeon, born at Ac- quapendente, in the Papal States, in 1537, died in Padua, May 21, 1619. A pupil of Fallopius, he succeeded him as professor of anatomy and surgery at the university of Padua, which posi- tion he held for 50 years. Fabricius was the first to demonstrate in 1574 the presence of valvular folds in all the veins of the extremi- ties. William Harvey, who was his pupil, ac- knowledged himself indebted to his teachings for the discovery of the circulation of the blood. His writings comprise dissertations on the formation of the foetus, the structure of the oesophagus, stomach, and body, and the pecu- liarities of the eye, ear, and larynx ; treatises on the egg and on veins, &c. Great honors were bestowed on him by the Venetian gov- ernment, and a large anatomical theatre was constructed for his accommodation. The first edition of his surgical works appeared at Padua in 1617. An edition of his anatomical and physiological works was published by Bohn in Leipsic in 1687, followed in 1737 by the more complete one of Albinus of Leyden. FABRICIUS, Johann Albert, a German bibli- ographer, born in Leipsic, Nov. 11, 1668, died in Hamburg, April 30, 1736. He studied phi- losophy, medicine, and theology, and in 1699 was appointed professor of rhetoric and moral FABYAN 53 philosophy in the gymnasium of Hamburg. The extent of his learning in almost every de- partment of knowledge, especially in philology, was remarkable. His most celebrated works are : BibliotJieca Latino, (Hamburg, 1697 ; 5th ed., 3 vols., 1721 ; new ed. by Ernesti, 3 vols., Leipsic, l773-'4) ; BibliotJieca Grceca (14 vols., Hamburg, 1705-'28 ; continuation and new edi- tion by Harless, 12 vols., Hamburg, 1790-1809, provided with an index in 1838) ; Biblio- grapUa Antiquaria (Hamburg, 171 3 ; new ed. by Schafshausen, 1760) ; BibliotJieca Ecclesi- astica (Hamburg, 1718) ; and BibliotJieca Me- dia et Infimm JEtatis (5 vols., Hamburg, 1734 ; supplementary vol. by Schottgen, 1746 ; new ed. by Mansi, Padua, 1754). FABRICIUS, Johann Christian, a Danish ento- mologist, born in* Tondern, Schleswig, Jan. 7, 1743, died in Kiel in 1807 or 1808. His aca- demic studies were pursued at Copenhagen, Leyden, Edinburgh, and finally at Upsal, under Linnseus. He was much attached to the great Swede, and has preserved many interesting details of his private life. He adopted Lin- naBus's method, and introduced a system of classifying insects by the parts which consti- tute the mouth. He took the degree of doc- tor of medicine about 1767, and was afterward appointed professor of natural history in the university of Kiel, where he wrote his Sy sterna EntomologicB (1775), subsequently enlarged into Entomologia Systematica (4 vols. 8vo, Copenhagen, 1792-'4). He employed the re- mainder of his life in developing and perfect- ing it, and for this purpose made tours over different parts of Europe. His Genera In- sectorum (8vo, Kiel, 1777), PhilosopJiia Ento- mologica (Hamburg, 1778), Species Insectorum (2 vols., 1781), Mantissa Insectorum (2 vols., Copenhagen, 1787), and other works show how complete and extended were his investi- gations in this branch of science. He also published essays on botany and natural history, accounts of travels in Norway, Russia, and England, and a variety of treatises, historical, political, and economical, relating to Denmark, the latter being prepared by him in his capacity of councillor of state and professor of rural and political economy at Kiel. He died of grief, it is supposed, occasioned by the bom- bardment of Copenhagen, and the political misfortunes of Denmark. FABYAN, or Fabian, Robert, an ancient Eng- lish chronicler, born in London about 1450, died in 1512. He was a merchant, became an alderman and sheriff of London, and wrote a general chronicle of English history, which he called the "Concordance of Histories," from the fabulous exploits of Brutus in Great Britain to the reign of Henry VII. It was first pub- lished after the author's death (folio, 1516), and reappeared in numerous editions, the last of which is that by Sir Henry Ellis, accompanied by notes and a learned introduction (" Chron- icles of England and France," royal 4to, Lon- don, 1811). On account of its free animad-