Greek and Roman Antiquities

• Fabatarium a vessel, in which a kind of bean soup (puls fabacea, Macrob. 1.12, med.) was probably ser
• Fabri are workers in wood, stone, or metal, as fabri tignarii, carpenters, fabri aerarii, smiths
• Factorium an oil-press (Pallad. 11.10, 1), so called from the factor, who pressed the olives (Cat. A
• Fala or PHALA 1. A wooden structure, of considerable height, used in sieges, from which missile
• Falsum The crime of falsum is not defined, by Roman legal writers, but it consisted of acts of fr
• Falx dim. FALCULA (ἅρπη, κοπίς, δρέπανον, poet. δρεπάνη, dim. δρεπάνιον), a sickle; a scythe; a
• Familia in Old Latin famelia, in Oscan famelo, in Umbrian famedia, is probably in its original sen
• Familiae erciscundae judicium erciscundae judicium When several heredes succeeded to an inheritance, whether under a wil
• Fanum is any locality consecrated by the pontiffs, and is derived by the ancients from fari, bec
• Fartor was a slave who fattened poultry. (Col. 8.7.1; Hor. Sat. 2.3, 228; Plaut. True. 1.2, 11.)
• Fasces were rods bound together by a red thong in the form of a bundle, and containing an axe (se
• Fascia dim. FASCIOLA (ταινἴα, ἀπόδεσμος), any long narrow strip of cloth employed as a bandage. 1
• Fascia in architecture, signifies (by an obvious analogy with the ordinary meaning of the word) a
• Fascinum fascination, en, chantment. The belief that some persons had the power of injuring others
• Fasti Fas signifies divine law: the epithet fastus is properly applied to anything in accordance
• Fastigium literally a slope, in architecture a pediment, is the triangle which surmounts each end of
• Fax a torch. The descriptions of poets and mythologists, and the works of ancient art, represe
• Feminalia were worn in winter by Augustus Caesar, who was very susceptible of cold. (Sueton. Aug. 82
• Fenestra 1. A window. For the windows of Greek houses, see DOMUS p. 663 b; and for the windows of R
• Fenus interest of money. Greek At Athens, Solon, among other reforms, abolished the law by which
• Ferculum is applied to any kind of tray or platform used for carrying anything. Thus it is used to
• Feriae holidays, were, generally speaking, days or seasons during which free-born Romans suspende
• Fescennina scil. carmina, one of the earliest kinds of Italian poetry, which consisted of rude and jo
• Festuca is properly any stem, stalk, straw or haulm of corn, or blade of grass (Varr. L. L. 5.31.3
• Fetiales a college (Liv. 36.3) of Roman priests who acted as the guardians of the public faith. It
• Fibula a brooch consisting of a pin (acus), and of a curved portion furnished with a hook (κλείς,
• Fictile anything made of earth or clay, earthen, fictile. In Greek the special word for moulding i
• Fictio Fictions in Roman law are like fictions in English law, of which it has been said that the
• Fideicommissum was a bequest which a person made by begging his heir or legatee to transfer something to
• Fidicula or plural-- AE, an instrument of torture, consisting of a number of strings (Suet. Tib. 62
• Fiducia is a lex dicta or supplementary provision sometimes incorporated in a mancipium or in jure
• Fimbriae thrums; tassels; a fringe. When the weaver had finished any garment on the loom [TELA], th
• Finium regundorum regundorum, ACTIO. This was an action having for its original object the determination of
• Fiscus In the republican period there was only one public treasury, the Aerarium populi Romani, o
• Fistuca an instrument used for ramming down pavements and threshing-floors and the foundations of
• Fistula a water-pipe. Vitruvius (8.6) distinguishes three modes of conveying water: by channels of
• Flabellum dim. FLABELLULUM (ῥιπίς, ῥιπιστήρ, dim. ῥιπίδιον), a fan. Ancient fans were not so constru
• Flagrum dim. FLAGELLUM (μάστιξ), a whip, scourge. It may be broadly stated that the corporal punis
• Flamen the name for any Roman priest who was devoted to the service of one particular god (DIVISQ
• Flammeum a flame-coloured veil, worn by a Roman bride, the colour of which is described as luteus (
• Floralia or Florales Ludi, a festival which was celebrated at Rome in honour of Flora or Chloris. I
• Focale a covering for the throat (fauces), sometimes drawn also over the ears (Mart. 4.41), made
• Focus dim. FOCULUS (ἑστία: ἐσχάρα, ἐσχάρις, dim. ἐσχάριον), a fire-place; a hearth; a brasier. T
• Foederatae civitates civitates, FOEDERATI, SOCII. In extending her influence and dominions beyond the seven hil
• Follis dim. FOLLICULUS, an inflated ball of leather, no doubt originally the skin of a quadruped
• Fons signifies originally a natural spring of water, but both the Greeks and Romans had artific
• Forceps tongs, pincers, nippers or pliers, were used in antiquity for the same purposes, and with
• Fordicidia the second of the two festivals of the Curiae (the first being the FORNACALIA), held on th
• Forfex dim. FORFICULA (ψαλίς. dim. ψαλίδιον), shears (Serv. in Verg. A. 8.453), used (1) in shear
• Forma dim. FORMULA, FORMELLA (τύπος), a pattern, a mould; any contrivance adapted to convey its
• Fornacalia a festival in honour of Fornax, the goddess of furnaces, in order that the corn might be p
• Fornax dim. FORNACULA, FURNUS (κάμινος, dim. καμίνιον), a kiln; an oven; a furnace. The construct
• Fornix in its primary sense, is synonymous with ARCUS (Senec. Ep. 90), but more commonly implies
• Forpex a pair of curling irons, is sometimes treated as a mere corruption of FORCEPS; and in an o
• Forum As the plan of the present work does not include a topographical description of the variou
• Frenum a bridle, including the bit, headstall, and reins. It was properly the bit as distinct fro
• Fritillus a dice-box. The dice were sometimes thrown from the hand, but (to prevent cheating) more u
• Frumentariae leges leges From the earliest times the supply of corn at Rome was considered one of the duties
• Frumentarii sc. negotiatores, corn-dealers or corn-merchants (Cic. de Off. 3.13.57; Liv. 4.12). The la
• Fucus was the general term to signify the paint which the Greek and Roman ladies employed in pai
• Fullo a fuller, a washer or scourer of cloth and linen. The fullones not only received the cloth
• Funale the neuter form, is probably to be distinguished from FUNALIS and means a chandelier or ot
• Funalis a link or taper, used in the same manner as a torch [FAX], but made of papyrus and other f
• Funambulus a ropedancer. The art of dancing on the tight rope was carried to as great perfection amon
• Funda a sling. The light troops of the Greek and Roman armies included a certain proportion of s
• Fundus The primary signification of this word appears to be the bottom or foundation of a thing;
• Funus It is proposed in the following article to give a brief account of Greek and Roman funeral
• Furca dim. FURCULA, FURCILLA (δίκρανον, δίκρουν ξύλον), a fork. 1. A two-pronged fork used for v
• Furtum theft, is the act of unlawfully handling a thing capable of being stolen, wit]h the wrongf
• Fuscina a trident; more commonly called tridens, meaning tridens stimulus, because it was original
• Fustuarium called also fusti percutere, was a capital punishment inflicted upon Roman soldiers for th
• Fusus the spindle, was always, when in use, accompanied by the distaff (colus, ἠλακάτη), as an i