Paullus Fabius Maximus

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Paullus Fabius Maximus (* around 46 BC; † 14 AD) was a Roman politician and senator of the Augustan period.

Paullus came from the patrician family of the Fabians and was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus , suffect consul 45 BC. His younger brother was Africanus Fabius Maximus , consul 10 BC. Chr. Paullus was a close and influential friend of the emperor Augustus and married to Marcia, daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus and cousin of Augustus. He also acted as a patron of the Roman poets Horace and Ovid .

Between 22 and 19 BC As quaestor Augusti , Paullus accompanied Augustus on his journey to the east. From the fact that his wife received a tomb in the east, the conclusion was drawn that he was around 15 BC. BC was governor of Cyprus . However, this is not certain. In the year 11 BC In BC Paullus and his colleague Quintus Aelius Tubero held the ordinary consulate . Without observing the five-year interval, it was 10/9 BC. BC Proconsul of the province of Asia and 3/2 BC BC Legate of the province of Hispania Tarraconensis . Paullus was also pontiff and brother of the Arval .

Ovid addressed several of his letters from exile to him, with the request that he use his influence over Augustus and obtain a lifting or lessening of the exile.

At the beginning of the summer of 14 AD, Paullus is said to have been the only companion in a secret visit by the Princeps to his exiled grandson Agrippa Postumus on the island of Planasia near Elba and told this to his wife Marcia , who in turn informed the Empress Livia of it should. This provided the reason that Paullus fell out of favor with Augustus and perhaps ended by suicide shortly before his death. In research, this story is usually considered unbelievable. His son was the ordinary consul of the year 34 AD Paullus Fabius Persicus .

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  1. ↑ are certainly addressed to him ex Ponto I, 2 and III, 3; possibly also III, 8.
personal data
SURNAME Fabius Maximus, Paullus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 11 ​​BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH around 46 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 14th