Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (Consul 292 BC)

Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges was a Roman politician and senator .

Maximus was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus . He was in 292 and 276 BC. Chr. Consul . His nickname Gurges can be translated as “spendthrift”. Gurges defeated 290 and 276 BC. The Samnites . In 273 BC He headed the legation of Rome, which traveled to Ptolemy II Philadelphus , in order to establish diplomatic relations with the Egyptian Ptolemaic Empire . His son of the same name was born in 265 BC. Chr. Consul.

literature

Hans Georg Gundel : Fabius II. 36. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 493.

Remarks

↑ On his years in office, see 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, pp. 181 f., 195, (Unchanged reprint 1968).

personal data
SURNAME	Fabius Maximus Gurges, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gurges, Quintus Fabius Maximus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman politician and consul
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 273 BC Chr.

[1] On his years in office, see 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, pp. 181 f., 195, (Unchanged reprint 1968).