Fulvia
An ambitious woman, wife of the tribune Clodius, afterward of Curio, and lastly of Antony. Antony divorced her for Cleopatra.
She attempted to avenge her wrongs by persuading Augustus to take up arms against Antony.
See page 86.
Cupid.
I2I Gaea or Ge. Called Tellus by the Romans, the personification of the earth, is described as the first being that sprung from Chaos, and gave birth to Uranus (Heaven) and Pontus (Sea). By Uranus she became the mother of the Titans, who were hated by their father. Ge therefore concealed them in the bosom of the earth; and she made a large iron sickle, with which Cronos (Saturn) mutilated Uranus. Ge or Tellus was regarded by both Greeks and Romans as one of the gods of the nether world, and hence is frequently mentioned where they are invoked.
Gaius or Caius. A celebrated Roman jurist, who wrote under Antoninus Pius and M.
Aurelius. One of his chief works was an elementary treatise on Roman law, entitled Institutiones, in four books, which was the ordinary text-book used by those who were commencing the study of the Roman law, until the compilation of the Institutiones of Justinian. This work was lost for centuries, until discovered by Niebuhr in 1816 at Verona.