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Fabii
A noble and powerful family at Rome. They fought with the Veientes, and all of them were slain. One of the family, of tender age, remained…
Falernus
A fertile mountain and plain of Campania, famous for its wine. Falernian wine was held in great esteem by the Romans, and it is often…
Felicitas
The personification of happiness, is frequently seen on Roman medals, in the form of a matron, with the staff of Mercury and a cornucopia…
Feretrius
A surname of Jupiter, derived from ferire, to strike; for persons who took an oath called upon Jupiter to strike them if they swore…
Fidius
An ancient form of filius, occurs in the connection of Dius Fidius, or Medius Fidius, that is me Dius filius, or the son of Jupiter, that…
Flavia Gens
Celebrated as the house to which the emperor Vespasian belonged. During the later period of the Roman empire the name Flavius descended…
Flora
The goddess of flowers and gardens among the Romans. She was the same as the Chloris of the Greeks. Florentia (Firenze, Florence). A town…
Fortuna
A powerful deity among the ancients, daughter of Oceanus, according to Homer, or one of the Parcae, according to Pindar. She was the…
Forum
An open space of ground in which the public met for the transaction of public business, and for the sale and purchase of provisions. The…
Fulvia
An ambitious woman, wife of the tribune Clodius, afterward of Curio, and lastly of Antony. Antony divorced her for Cleopatra. She attempted…
Fauni, Febris, Fides & Fornax
Rural deities represented as having the legs, feet, and ears of goats, and the rest of the body human. The goddess, or rather the averter…