Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus

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Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus († probably before 100 BC) came from the Roman noble family of Fabians and was born in 121 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus , who lived in 145 BC. Officiated as consul.

Although Fabius' reputation was allegedly not the best in his youth, he received help from his uncle Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus in choosing the quaestors for 134 BC. BC and therefore obtained this post. Scipio led the command of the Roman troops in Spain that year as consul , was assigned Fabius as quaestor, probably at his request, and ordered him to bring an army of 4,000 volunteer soldiers with him for reinforcement. As Scipio in 129 BC Died, Fabius led the funeral ceremonies together with another nephew of the deceased, Quintus Aelius Tubero . In addition, Fabius delivered the funeral oration, the author of which, however, was Gaius Laelius . As praetor and then propaetor (probably 124-123 BC) Fabius stayed again in Spain and was warned by the Senate because Gaius Sempronius Gracchus had accused him of plundering the subjects of his province.

The consulate was given to Fabius in 121 BC. Together with Lucius Opimius . He was assigned Gallia Transalpina as a province and successfully fought alongside his predecessor in the consulate, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus , against the Allobroger and Arverni . Both won a decisive victory over the Gallic tribes on August 8 at the confluence of the Isère in the Rhône , although Fabius suffered from an illness. Since he held the highest state office that year, he was given priority over Ahenobarbus in the honors. After his consulate he was the first to hold a triumph in which the captured King of the Arverni, Bituitus, was presented in his silver armor. The evidence that Fabius received the nickname Allobrogicus as a result of his victory in what was later to be southern France comes from authors of the 1st century AD. B. not yet listed in the acts of triumph, so that he could not have received it officially. To mark his victory, he also had a memorial built at the site of the decisive battle. With the treasures looted in Gaul, he also initiated the construction of the triumphal arch called Fornix Fabianus at the Roman Forum . The Allobrogians have greatly revered the Fabier family since the dispute with Fabius, who is being treated here, and in some cases also saw its members as patron saints, their tribal area including their capital Vienne then became part of the Roman Empire.

Fabius' further career is unclear, because it is not known exactly whether he or Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus 113 BC. Belonged to an embassy to Crete and 108 BC. Became censor . In any case, before 100 BC it should be. He died because Marcus Tullius Cicero does not list him among the leading optimates living at this time . According to the poet Lucius Accius , who was closely with him , he was very educated.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Triumphal Acts; Cicero , Brutus 107.
  2. ↑ Valerius Maximus 6: 9, 4; 8, 15, 4.
  3. ↑ Appian , Iberica 84, who, however, names the quaestor Buteo , which Fabius did not use by the surname.
  4. ^ Cicero, de oratore 2, 341.
  5. ↑ Plutarch , Gaius Gracchus 6, 1.
  6. ↑ Cassiodorus , Chronica ; Livy , periochae 61.
  7. ↑ According to Appian ( Celtica 2) Fabius suffered from a wound, according to Pliny ( Natural History 7, 166) he was shaken by intermittent fever.
  8. ↑ Valerius Maximus 3, 5, 2; 6, 9, 4; Pliny, Natural History 33, 141.
  9. ↑ Strabon 4, 185; Florus 1, 37, 6.
  10. ^ Cicero, in Verrem 1, 19.
  11. ^ Cicero, per M. Fonteio 36.
  12. ^ Cicero, per C. Rabirio perduellionis reo 21.
  13. ↑ Cicero, Brutus 107.
personal data
SURNAME Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maximus Allobrogicus, Quintus Fabius; Allobrogicus, Quintus Fabius Maximus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul and general
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.