Kaeso Fabius Ambustus

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Kaeso Fabius Ambustus was a member of the patrician family of the Fabians of the early Roman Republic , who is said to have served as consular tribune four times (404, 401, 395, 390 BC) .

Life

Kaeso Fabius Ambustus was, according to the filiation information of the Fasti Capitolini, the son of a Marcus Fabius Ambustus , while his grandfather carried the prenomen Quintus . 409 BC According to credible tradition, he was elected as the quaestor as the only patrician together with three men who came from the class of the plebeians for the first time . It belonged to the highest magistrate's college of the consular tribunes for the first time in 404 BC. Chr. At that time the Romans are said to have conquered a city of the Volscians called Artena , and the storming of the citadel caused them problems. The second consular tribunate was held by Kaeso Fabius Ambustus in 401 and the third in 395 BC. Chr.

391 BC BC Kaeso Fabius Ambustus and his two brothers are said to have provoked the Celts and Gauls on a diplomatic mission and were subsequently not extradited as requested by them, but on the contrary even for 390 BC. For the fourth time to have been elected to one of the consular tribunes, which brought about the Celtic conquest of Rome; for a detailed account of this see Quintus Fabius Ambustus .

Kaeso Fabius Ambustus was the father of the consular tribune from 381 and 369 BC. BC, Marcus Fabius Ambustus .

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Livy 4, 54, 3.
  2. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 404 BC Chr .: [K. Fabius M.] f. Q. n. [Amb] ustus ; Livius 4, 61, 4 (who either following a different tradition or by mistake, as with the bursary, does not name Kaeso Fabius Ambustus, but a Gaius Fabius Ambustus ); Diodorus 14, 19, 1 (without cognomen).
  3. ^ Livy 4:61.
  4. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 401 BC Chr .: K. Fabius M. f. Q. after Ambustus II ; Livy 5, 10, 1: K. Fabius Ambustus (without specifying the iteration ); Diodorus 14, 44, 1 (without cognomen and iteration number).
  5. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 395 BC Chr .: [… Ambu] stus III ; Livy 5, 24, 1: K. Fabius Ambustus iterum ; Diodorus 14, 94, 1 (without cognomen and iteration number).
  6. ↑ Livy 5, 34ff .; deviating Diodor 14, 113, 4-7.
  7. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Fabius 43). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, column 1753.
personal data
SURNAME Fabius Ambustus, Kaeso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ambustus, Kaeso Fabius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consular tribune 404, 401, 395 and 390 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 390 BC Chr.