Quintus Fabius Labeo

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Quintus Fabius Labeo came from the Roman noble family of Fabians and was born in 183 BC. Chr. Consul of the Roman Republic .

Life

Quintus Fabius Labeo had a father and grandfather of the same name. He began his official career in 196 BC. With the city bailiff . 189 BC He became praetor and was to command the fleet anchored in front of Ephesus , but the war of the Romans against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus III was already before his arrival . came to an end. Thereupon Fabius Labeo turned as fleet commander against the island of Crete , since the cities of Gortyn and Knossos held many Romans prisoner, whose release he demanded; only the first city met this condition. Now the Praetor went to Ephesus back from there with three ships to the coast of Thrace and renewed freedom of - previously occupied by the Seleucid king - Cities Ainos and Maroneia he also from attacks of the Macedonian king Philip V protected.

After the for Antiochus III. In painful peace conditions, he had to hand over his war fleet to the Romans, among others. The destruction of these ships stored at Patara in Lycia took place in 188 BC. Chr. Fabius Labeo. After taking Telmessos , he sailed through the Aegean Sea , where he worshiped the god Apollo with a gift on Delos , and then via Athens to Italy. All in all he had not earned any great military laurels, but although the tribunes objected, he was allowed to attend the nuns of February 188 BC. Celebrate a sea triumph.

Several times, Fabius Labeo applied in vain for the highest office in the state; so he came z. B. 184 BC Not to the train because the consul of the year 185 BC BC, Appius Claudius Pulcher , the election of his brother Publius as consul for the following year. After all, Fabius Labeo belonged to 184 BC. To the three-man college that founded the Roman citizen colonies Potentia and Pisaurum (today Pesaro ). He was finally born in 183 BC. Together with Marcus Claudius Marcellus Consul. In his province of Liguria , which he ruled during his consulate as governor, he fought quite unsuccessfully, as well as proconsul in 182 BC. Chr.

180 BC Admitted to the College of Pontifices , Fabius Labeo still lived in 167 BC. BC, because the surviving books of Livy up to this year do not record his death. Most likely, he was a member of the commission of ten men who, together with Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, took over the reorganization of Perseus after the Roman victory over the last Macedonian king .

In a year that could not be determined more precisely, Fabius Labeo was supposed to settle a border conflict between the cities of Naples and Nola and cleverly struck out advantages for the Romans. He was also active as a poet.

It is unclear whether Quintus Fabius Labeo can be identified with the speaker or lawyer Quintus Fabius Labeo mentioned by Cicero .

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Livy 33, 42, 2.
  2. ↑ Livy 37:47, 8; 37, 50, 8; 37, 60, 1.
  3. ↑ Livius 37, 60, 2-5 after Polybius ; the following passage 37, 60, 6 is an extension after the unreliable annalist Valerius Antias .
  4. ↑ Livy 37:60, 7; 39, 27, 10.
  5. ↑ Polybios 21, 46, 3; Livy 38, 39, 2f. The depiction in Valerius Maximus 7,3,4b that Labeo used a ruse to destroy the entire fleet instead of not only half the fleet as agreed is not historical .
  6. ^ Inscriptiones Latinae selectae (ILS) 8765.
  7. ↑ Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones Italiae 13, 1, p. 554. In Livy's case this triumph is only indirectly documented (37, 60, 6 [after Valerias Antias]; 38, 47, 5). He is also indicated by an image of ship's beaks on a coin of the grandson of the same name of Quintus Fabius Labeo ( Roman republican coinage , nos. 273/1 and 273/2).
  8. ↑ Livy 39, 32, 6-12.
  9. ↑ Livy 39, 44, 10.
  10. ↑ His name received in the Fasti Capitolini ; further mentions in Livius (39, 45, 1) and others
  11. ↑ Livy 39:56, 3; 40, 1, 3. 8.
  12. ^ Livy 40, 42, 6.
  13. ↑ Although he is only called Labeo by Livius (45, 31, 14) , he is probably one of the two names missing from the same author (45, 17, 2) of the men belonging to that commission.
  14. ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero , de officiis 1, 33.
  15. ↑ Santra in Suetonius , Life of Terenz 4; see. Cicero, Brutus 81
  16. ↑ Cicero, Brutus 81.
  17. ↑ cf. Wolfgang Kunkel , The Roman Jurists - Origin and Position , 2nd edition, Cologne 1967, p. 10; Friedrich Münzer : Fabius 91. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 2, Stuttgart 1909, Sp. 1775 ..
personal data
SURNAME Fabius Labeo, Quintus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 183 BC Chr. And general
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.