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Fabius Fabricianus, a kinsman of Fabius Maximus, sacked Tuxium,Bovianum? the chief city of the Samnites, and sent to Rome the statue of Venus Victrix, which was held in honour among the Samnites. His wife Fabia, debauched by a certain handsome youth whose name was Petronius Valentinus, slew her husband by treachery. But a daughter Fabia rescued from danger her brother Fabricianus, who was still a young child, and sent him away secretly to be reared elsewhere. When he reached manhood he slew his mother and her lover, and was absolved from guilt by the senate. This Dositheüs relates in the third book of his Italian History.
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Busiris, the son of Poseidon and Anippê, daughter of the Nile, with treacherous hospitality was wont to sacrifice such persons as passed his way. But there came upon him vengeance for those that had perished by his hand. For Heracles attacked him with his club and slew him. Cf. Life of Theseus, xi. (5 b); Frazer’s note on Apollodorus, ii. 5. 11 (L.C.L. vol. i. pp. 224-225). Quis...inlaudati nescit Busiridis aras? (Virgil, Georgics, iii. 4-5). So Agathon of Samos.
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When Hercules was driving through Italy the cattle of Geryon, he was entertained, by king Faunus, the son of Mercury, who was wont to sacrifice his guests to the god that was his father. But when he attacked Hercules, he was slain. So Dercyllus in the third book of his Italian History.
