Marcus Fabius Buteo

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Marcus Fabius Buteo († before 209 BC) came from the Roman noble Fabier family and was 245 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

The father and grandfather of Marcus Fabius Buteo were both called Marcus Fabius . In addition, the consul of the year 247 BC was BC, Numerius Fabius Buteo , a brother of Marcus Fabius Buteo.

Fabius acquired the consulate in 245 BC. Together with Gaius Atilius Bulbus . He was assigned Sicily as a province and waged war against Carthage there . According to the author of an epitome of Livius, Florus , Fabius is said to have achieved a sea victory at Aigimuros and later to have suffered shipwreck with his fleet, on which the captured treasures were transported; perhaps this narrative is confused with armed conflict in another year. To censorship came Fabius 241 v. Chr.

It is not clear from the sources which important Roman in 219 BC. Chr. Led the embassy to the Carthaginians, which brought the offer of war or peace after the conquest of Sagunto by Hannibal . The most likely candidates are Marcus Fabius Buteo or Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (see there for further details).

After the devastating defeat of the Romans in the battle of Cannae against Hannibal, numerous patricians had also died, so that the Senate no longer had enough members. Now Fabius was elected dictator as the oldest censor to complete the thinned ranks of senators (end of 216 BC). Since another dictator, Marcus Iunius Pera , had already been appointed for a different task and the simultaneous election of two dictators - as so many things in the Second Punic War - contradicted old traditions, Fabius was not given a Magister equitum . Nevertheless, he did his job very quickly and to everyone's satisfaction; then he returned to his private life.

Fabius probably died before 209 BC. BC, since this year not he, but Fabius Verrucosus Princeps senatus .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ The Cognomen Buteo means hawk ; how Fabius got this nickname is not known.
  2. ↑ Fasti Capitolini to the years 245 and 216 BC Chr.
  3. ↑ Fasti Capitolini; among others
  4. ^ So Münzer (see Lit.), Col. 1760 on Florus 1, 18, 30ff.
  5. ↑ Fasti Capitolini; Titus Livius 23, 22, 10-23, 23, 8; Plutarch , Fabius 9, 3f.
personal data
SURNAME Fabius Buteo, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buteo, Marcus Fabius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 245 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH before 209 BC Chr.