Fauonius Eulogius (ca 380 – 420 CE)
Municipal Rhetor in Carthage and student of A, who mentions Eulogius in his
De cura pro mortuis gerenda 11.13, which tells of Augustine unraveling for Eulogius in a dream
(probably in 386 or 387) an obscure passage in a rhetorical text of C. This may
possibly refer to the composition of Eulogius’s Disputation on Cicero’s Dream of Scipio (generally
dated between 390 and 410), written in Latin and dedicated to Superius, consul of Byzacium
(modern-day Tunisia and Libya), which is arranged in two sections: the first (§§ 2 – 20) reviews
the characteristic Pythagorean arithmology of the first nine numbers in order to explain
why Cicero regarded the age of 56 as perfect; the second (§§ 21 – 27) deals with the musical
intervals, harmonic ratios, and the harmony of the spheres. It is likely, though not certain,
that Eulogius’ treatment predates the far more extensive commentary of M.
Ed.: R.-E. van Weddingen, Disputatio de Somnio Scipionis (1957), with French trans.
RE 6.2 (1909) 2077, G. Wissowa; PLRE 1 (1971) 294; BNP 5 (2004) 375, J. Flamant.
Thomas J. Mathiesen
Fauorinus of Arelate (110 – 150 CE)
Roman intellectual who traveled all over the Roman world and knew many of the leading
men. He wrote in Greek, and of his numerous works, mostly lost, fragments of his Memoirs
and his Miscellaneous History are of particular interest for the history of philosophy and
science. He seems to have been mainly interested in biographical details; most fragments are
preserved in D L. He argued against astrology, Gellius 14.1.
Ed.: E. Mensching, Favorin von Arelate I (1963): all published; A. Barigazzi, Favorino di Arelate, Opere
(1966); E. Amato and Y. Julien, Favorinos d’Arles, Oeuvres 1 (CUF 2005).
Mejer (1978) 30–32; BNP 5 (2004) 375–376, E.-G. Schmidt.
Jørgen Mejer
Faustinus (ca 100 BCE – ca 80 CE)
A in G, CMLoc 9.5 (13.296 K.), records the “Faustinian” enema for
“dysentery,” attributed to a Faustinus by A A 14.50 (p. 790 Cornarius), and
still in use by A T (2.427 Puschm.) and P A, 7.12.24
(CMG 9.2, p. 318); Aëtios also refers to the trokhiskos of Faustinus, 9.42 (Zervos 1911:
386). K H in Gale ̄n, CMLoc 7.2 (13.36 K.), cites the “Faustinian”
cough-drop (ekleigma) of wine, honey and rue, which Paulos attributes to “Faustinus.” These
may just be “lucky” medicines, as Gale ̄n, Antid. 1.3 (14.20 K.), but the name Faustinus/a is
attested from the 1st c. BCE (LGPN 1.456, Crete; Martial 1.25, etc.; CIL^2 2.5.268, 615), and
is a common cognomen among such gentes as Aelius, Caecilius, Iulius, Pompeius, and others.
Fabricius (1726) 159.
PTK
Iulius Firmicus Maternus (334 – ca 357 CE)
Wrote the Mathesis (Matheseos Libri), probably between 334 and 337 (PLRE 1 [1971] 568),
which treats practical astrology, and may represent a “popular” rather than “scientific”
viewpoint (DSB 4.622). Its importance is twofold: firstly, it is the only substantially extant
ancient handbook on astrological practice, as opposed to theory (cf. P’ Tetrabiblos);
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