Marcus Fabius Ambustus (consular tribune 381 BC)

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Marcus Fabius Ambustus came from the Roman family of the Fabians and was 381 and 369 BC. Chr. Consular Tribune .

Life

Marcus Fabius Ambustus was the son of the multiple consular tribune Kaeso Fabius Ambustus and himself held this office in 381 and 369 BC. According to the late annalist tradition picked up by the Roman historian Titus Livius , Fabius was involved in class struggles that ultimately ended with plebeians being allowed to exercise the consulate. According to this, Fabius' younger daughter Fabia, who had married the plebeian Gaius Licinius Stolo , was disappointed about the loss of prestige associated with this marriage and complained to her father. This then supported 376 BC. His son-in-law and Lucius Sextius Lateranus when applying for the Licinian-Sextic laws , which were finally adopted in 367 BC. Could be brought through. Thus, plebeians also received the right to be admitted to the highest office of the state.

Perhaps Fabius was 363 BC Together with Lucius Furius Medullinus censor .

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Remarks

  1. Livy 6, 22, 5; Diodorus 15, 48, 1.
  2. Fasti Capitolini ; Livy 6:36, 6; Diodorus 15, 77, 1.
  3. ^ Livy 6, 34, 5-11.
  4. Broughton considers the identity of the censor and the consular tribune Marcus Fabius Ambustus to be fairly certain, see: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC-100 BC Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), p. 117; to the consular tribunate of Fabius Ambustus 381 BC See p. 104, to 369 BC. Chr. See p. 111