Marcus Fabius Dorsuo

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Marcus Fabius Dorsuo came from the Roman noble family of Fabians and was 345 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

Marcus Fabius Dorsuo was probably the son of Gaius Fabius Dorsuo , who is said to have been able to make an offering unscathed in the Temple of Vesta during the Gauls attack on Rome (390 BC).

Fabius arrived in 345 BC Together with Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Rufus to the consulate. The two consuls were the heavily fortified city of Sora that the Volscians belonged to conquer.

literature

Remarks

  1. Livy 7:28 , 1; Diodorus 16, 66, 1 (wrongly classified as 348 BC); compare: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 131, (Reprinted unchanged 1968).
  2. ^ Livy 7:28 , 6.