Gaius Fabricius Luscinus Monocularis, the one-eyed, son of Gaius, Roman consul who negotiated with Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, after the defeat at Heraclea. Fabricius. 3rd century BC. Copperplate engraving by Pieter Bodart (1676-1712) from Henricus Spoor’s Deorum et Heroum, Virorum et Mulierum Illustrium Imagines Antiquae Illustatae, Gods and Heroes, Men and Women, Illustrated with Antique Images, Petrum, Amsterdam, 1715. First published as Favissæ utriusque antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in 1707. Henricus Spoor was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, poet and writer, fl. 1694-1716.

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