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Brutians, and Samnites. He forced the enemy’s camp, 
and gained fo great a booty, that after largely rewarding 
his foldiers, he brought four hundred talents to the pub¬ 
lic treafury on the day he triumphed, and this glory was 
all the recompence he referved for himfelf. Two years 
afterwards lie was one of the ambaffadors Cent to Pyrrhus 
king of Epirus, in order to treat of the ranfom of prifon- 
ers. On this occafion the king, informed of his poverty, 
tempted him with a large futn to become his friend, but 
Fabricius was proof againd fuch offers. Pyrrhus then 
tried his courage by ordering a curtain to be fuddenly 
drawn which feparated him from a huge elephant, an ani¬ 
mal he had never yet feen : the bead was at the fame 
time urged to roar, and to place his trunk upon the Ro¬ 
man’s (boulder. Fabricius, perfectly unmoved, turned to 
the king, and afked him, if he thought that the man who 
could withftand his offers, would be fhaken by the bray¬ 
ing of a bead ? Fabricius was a fecond time conful, B. C. 
278, and in conjunction with his colleague JEmilius Pa- 
pus, carried on the war with Pyrrhus in the territory of 
Tarentum. He received at this time a propofal from the 
phyfician of that king, to carry him off by poifon, upon 
promife of a fuitable reward. The virtuous conful, ab¬ 
horring fuch treachery, communicated the affair to his 
colleague, and, as fome affirm, to the Roman fenate ; and 
a letter was fent to Pyrrhus, warning him of his domedic 
danger, and expreffing a detedation of employing fuch 
nefarious modes of warfare againd an enemy. In the year 
B. C. 275, Fabricius ferved the office of cenfor, and dif- 
played that rigour againd luxury which did honour to the 
ancient Romans. His contempt of riches continued dur¬ 
ing his life, and he died fo poor, that a dowry was given 
to his daughter out of the public treafury. Through re- 
fpedt to his memory, a law of the twelve tables was dif- 
penfed with, prohibiting burials within the city. 
FABRI'CIUS (Andrew), a learned catholic divine in 
the fixteenth century, born at a village in the vicinity 
of Liege. Having didinguidied himfelf by his progrefs 
in the dudy of philofophy and theology, he was appoint¬ 
ed to teach thofe fciences in the univerfity of Louvain. 
The abilities which he difplayed in this fituation attract¬ 
ed the notice of Otho, cardinal bifliop of Augfburg, who 
engaged him in his fervice, and fent him to Rome to ma¬ 
nage his concerns at that court, where he continued for fix 
years under the pontificate of Pius V. On his return, he 
was appointed coutifellor to the dukes of Bavaria, who 
procured for him the provoftlhip of Ottingen in Suabia, 
where he died in 1581. He was the author of Har- 
monia ConfeJJionis Augujlana, in folio, which was not pub- 
1 i(hed till after the author’s death, in 1587 j and other 
pieces didinguidied by erudition. 
FABRI'CIUS (George), a modern Latin poet, born 
at Kemnitz in Mifnia, in 1516. He didinguidied himfelf 
by a great facility in writing Latin verfe, of which he 
published twenty-five books of facred poems, printed at 
Bafil in two volumes, odtavo, 1567 ; likewife odes againd 
the Turks, &c. Elis poetry has been much praifed by 
his countrymen for eafe and purity of dyle, and concife- 
nefs without obfeurity. He was fo nice in his choice of 
words, that in his facred poems he would not employ a 
term which referred to the pagan mythology. He alfo 
wrote an art of poetry in feven books, frequently reprint¬ 
ed, and edeemed for its erudition. His other works are : 
1. A defeription of Rome, and Travels, in Latin profe. 
2. Rerum Germania magna £? Saxonia univerfa memorabil, two 
volumes, folio. 3. Saxonia illujlrata,feu Origines Saxonica, 
two volumes, folio. 4. Rerum Mijnicarum, Lib. vii. folio. 
He alfo publithed a collection of the Chridian Latin 
poets, in which,lie took the liberty of making fome al¬ 
terations in the originals. He died in 1571. 
FABRI'CIUS (James), a learned German lutheran 
divine, born at Collin, 111 Pomerania, in 1593. As his 
parents were too poor to afford him the requilite afiidance 
while purfuing his literary dudies, he furnifhed himfelf 
with the neceliary lupplies by devoting a part of his time 
to the indritction of yoting people. I-Ie was tints enabled 
eventually to repair to the univerfityof Rodock, where 
he acquired the edeem of the profeffors. Afterwards he 
became minider of Coflin, and W3s appointed preacher to 
the duke Bogiflaus XIV. through whole recommendation 
he received the degree of doctor from the univerfity of 
Gripfwald. About that time Gudavus Adolphus, king 
of Sweden, having undertaken his expedition into Ger¬ 
many, made Fabricius his confeffor, and appointed him to 
the fuperintendency of the ecclefiadics in hisarmy. After 
the death of that prince, at the battle of Lutzen, he was 
recalled by duke Bogiflaus, and made fuperintendant of 
Upper Pomerania ; in which pod, after the death of the 
duke, he was confirmed by queen Chridina. He was alfo 
appointed minider of the principal church of Stettin, and 
profeffor of theology in that city. He died in 1654. 
His literary produdtions # were, 1. Difputation.es in Genefm 
& in Epijlolam ad Romanos. 2. Probatio Vifionum. 3. In- 
viclce Vifionum Probationer, written in defence of the preced¬ 
ing againd the attacks of fome of the divines of Wittem- 
berg. 4. JuJla Gufiaviana ; and feveral treatifes, written 
in the German language. 
FABRI'CIUS (John Albert), a fcholar of great emi¬ 
nence, fon of an organid at Leiplic, where he was born in 
1668. At the age df (ixteen he was fent to the fchool of 
Quedlinburg. Having borrowed from the mader the Ad- 
verfaria of Gafpar Barthius, he was fo druck with the vad 
erudition difplayed in the work, that he became inflamed 
with the ambition of rivaling the author in his learning. 
Returning to Leiplic in 1686, he entered upon the dudy 
of theology, and particularly attended to the works of the 
fathers and the eccleliaflical hidorians. As his reading 
extended, he began to conceive the projedt of his Greek 
and Latin Bibliotheques, and made collections for the 
purpofe. At the age of twenty he gave the fir ft fruits of 
his erudition, in a differtation entitled, Mifcellaneous 
Remarks on the Seventy Interpreters of the Old Teda- 
ment. For feveral fucceffive years he publilhed learned 
pieces of philology, which proved his intimacy with 
fcriptural and philofophical criticifm. He preached fe¬ 
veral times at I.eipfic, and held public deputations in 
theology. In 1693 he went to Hamburg, where he re¬ 
dded in the houfe, and fuperintended the library, of John 
Frederic Mayer. In this fituation he remained five years, 
devoting his time to dudy and the labours of the pulpit. 
In 1697 he publilhed the fird edition of his Bibliotheca La¬ 
tina, in a fingle odtavo volume. On the death of Vincent 
Placcius in 1699, Fabricius was eledted to the vacant 
chair of eloquence in Hamburgh. He took the degree of 
dodtor in theology at Keil in that year ; and in the next, 
married the daughter of the mader of the fchool at Ham¬ 
burg, to whofe place he afterwards fucceeded. He ever 
after continued in that city; the magidrates of which were 
fo fenlible of his merit, that they confiderably augmented 
his falary upon an invitation he received from the land¬ 
grave of Heffe-Caffel to undertake the divinity profeffor- 
Ihip at Gieffen. He finilbed his laborious life in 1736, 
in his 68th year. The works by which lie has rendered 
the mod fervices to fcholars are: 1. Bibliotheca Graca, 
fourteen volumes, quarto, publilhed at Hamburgh from 
1705 to 1728 : this is a very extendve and accurate ac¬ 
count of the works, lives, &c. of Greek authors, with 
extracts or tranferipts of fome of their mod rare and cu¬ 
rious works. 2. Bibliotheca Latina, 1707, 1708, 1721, three 
volumes, odtavo, reprinted at Venice in two volumes, 
quarto, 1728: this is a fimilar work with refpect to the 
Latin authors 3. Bibliotheca Latina ecclefiajlica, Hamb. fol. 
1718 : a collection of Latin writers concerning ecclefiafti- 
cal affairs. 4. Codex apocryplius Novi Tejlamenti, Hamb. 
three volumes, odtavo, 1719 : a very curious compilation 
of all the falfe gofpels, acts, and apocalypfes, current in 
the early ages of Chriflianity. 5. Codex pfeud-epigraphus 
Vctcris Teftamenti, two volumes, odtavo, 1722, 1723: the 
fame with refpedb to the Old Tedament. 6. Bibliotheca 
medicat & inf mas Latinatis, five volumes, odtavo, 1734, re¬ 
printed 
