Numerius Fabius Ambustus

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Numerius Fabius Ambustus came from the Roman patrician family of the Fabians and was 406 and 390 BC. Chr. Consular Tribune .

Life

Numerius 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 . 406 BC He officiated for the first time as a consular tribune. In that year the payment of a regular pay for the Roman warriors was introduced. At that time, a ten-year war broke out between the inhabitants of the Etruscan city of Veji and the Romans, and the latter managed to break out in another military conflict in 406 BC. BC also a city of the Volscians , Anxur, which was later called Tarracina , conquer. These three facts, briefly handed down by Diodorus, are considered historically reliable in scholarship, as in general Diodor’s history of the early Roman Republic is considered more credible than that of Titus Livius . The storming of Anxur is described in much more detail by Livius and according to his statements, Numerius Fabius Ambustus is said to have contributed most to this success. The details told here cannot lay claim to historicity, even if Livius had perhaps significantly older predecessors such as Quintus Ennius in his report .

It is possible that Numerius Fabius Ambustus was 398 BC. BC envoy to the oracle of Delphi . 391 BC He and his two brothers are said to have provoked the Celts and Gauls on a diplomatic mission and then not delivered them as they requested, but on the contrary even for 390 BC. To have been elected to one of the consular tribunes for the second time, which brought about the Celtic conquest of Rome; for a detailed account of this see Quintus Fabius Ambustus .

Numerius Fabius Ambustus was the father of the three-time consul Marcus Fabius Ambustus .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 406 BC Chr .: N. Fabius M. f. Q. n. Ambustus ; Livy 4:58, 6; Diodorus 14, 12, 1 (without cognomen).
  2. ↑ Diodorus 14, 16, 5.
  3. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Fabius 45). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, column 1756.
  4. ↑ Livy 4:59, 1-10.
  5. ^ Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton , The Magistrates of the Roman Republic , Vol. 1, p. 86.
  6. ↑ Livy 5, 34ff .; deviating Diodor 14, 113, 4-7.
  7. ↑ Friedrich Münzer: Fabius 44). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, column 1753.
personal data
SURNAME Fabius Ambustus, Numerius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ambustus, Numerius Fabius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consular tribune 406 and 390 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 390 BC Chr.