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FAVORINUS

Volume 4 · 133 words · 1778 Edition

ancient orator and philosopher of Gaul, who flourished under the emperor Adrian, and taught with high reputation both at Athens and Rome. Many works are attributed to him; among the rest, a Greek miscellaneous history often quoted by Diogenes Laertius.

Faustus. See Fust.

Fawn, among sportsmen, a buck or doe of the first year; or the young one of the buck's breed in its first year.

Fe, ro, or Fei, the name of the chief god of the Chinese, whom they adore as the sovereign of heaven. They represent him shining all in light, with his hands hid under his robes, to shew that his power does all things invisibly. He has at his right-hand the famous Confucius, and at his left Lanza or Lanza, chief of the second sect of their religion.