FELPCITAS, the appellation of a Roman goddess, a Christian martyr, and a traditional empress, mentioned in ro mantic poetry Felicitas, a di vine being, agreeing with the End:cola nia (felicity) and the Eutychia (good for tune) of the Greeks, in whom was per sonified the idea of happiness arising from blissful occurrences. Thus, Fetid. tas (Eutychia) means more than Fortu na or Tyche, by which was meant chance or luck. The Felicitas of the Greeks, Eutychia, is represented on many earth en vessels as announcing to the specta tot the desired result of the action in tended. We also meet with it as Rlus t relive of success in arms, and of happi ness in marriage. On Roman coins she represented with the modius on her head, the staff of Hermes in her haul, and resting on a cornucopia; but her at tributes differ according to ci reit tnstanees. 2. St. Felicitas, a Christian lady of Rome, who is depicted with a pahn-branch and cross ; she is the patroness of male chil dren. She Imd seven !tons, who with her
suffered martyrdom at Rome, A.n. Eulicitas was thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil, while her sons' heads were cut off and exhibited before her. 3. Tho empress Pelicitas, a principal character in the romance of Count Octavian ; her two children, who, with herself, were east into a forest, were nursed by 11 lioness. FELLOW, the member of a college or of a corporate body.—This word has a very wide and opposite meaning; for though we say, in speaking of a skilful artist, this man has not his fellow, we al so apply it in the most ignoble sense, and say, such a one is it mean or worthless fellow.
FaL0 DE SE, in law, a person that, being of sound mind, and of the age of discretion, wilfully causes his own death.