A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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over'the Allobroges and their ally, Bituitus, king deposition of it in September. Fabius died on the
of the Arverni (Auvergne), in Gaul, son of the last day (December 31) of his official year. (Dion
preceding, was consul in B. C. 121. His campaign Cass. xliii. 42, 46; Plin. H. N. vii. 53; Cic. ad Fam.
was brilliant, and his triumph, De Allobrogibus et vii. 30; Liv. Epit. 116; comp. Macrob. Sat. ii. 3.)
Rege Arvernorum Betulto (Fasti), was rendered To which of the Fabii Maximi the preceding
famous by the spectacle of the Arvernian king coin belongs is quite uncertain. [W. B. D.]
riding in the chariot, and wearing the silver armour MA'XIMUS, FU'LVIUS CENTUMALUS.
he had borne in battle. [BITUITUS.] From the [CENTUMALUS, No. 1.]
plunder of Auvergne Fabius erected the Fornix MA'XIMUS HIEROSOLYMITA'NUS, or of
Fabianus crossing the Via Sacra, and near the JERUSALEM, of which city he was bishop, a Greek
temple of Vesta at Rome, and placed over the arch ecclesiastical writer of the latter part of the second
a statue of himself. (Pseud-Ascon. ad Cie. Verr. century. Jerome (De Viris Ilust. c. 47) mentions
i. 7, p. 133, Orelli; Schol. Gron. pp. 393, 399; Maximus, an ecclesiastical writer who wrote on the
comp. Cic. de Orat. ii. 66; Plin. HI. N. vii. 50.) questions of the origin of evil and the creation of
Fabius was censor in B.C. 108. He was an orator matter, as having lived under the emperors Comnand a man of letters. (Cic. Brut. 28, pro Font. 12.) modus (A. D. 180-193) and Severus (A. D. 193
On the death of Scipio Aemilianus, in B. C. 129, -211), but he does not say what office he held in
Fabius gave a banquet to the citizens of Rome, the church, or whether he held any; nor does he
and pronounced the funeral oration of the deceased, connect him with any locality. Honorius of Autun
a fragment of which is still extant. (Cic. pro (De Scriptor. Eccles. i. 47), extracting from Jerome,
Muraen. 36; Schol. Bob. tn Milonian. p. 283, reads the name Maximinus; and Rufinus, transOrelli; Appian, Gall. 2; Vell. Pat. ii. 10.) Plin. lating from Eusebius, who has a short passage re(H. N. xxxiii. 11) confounds this Fabius with the lating to the same writer (H. E. v. 27), gives the
preceding. name in the same form; but it is probably incor10. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. AEMILIANI N. MAX- rect. There was a Maximus bishop of Jerusalem
IMUS ALLOBROGICUS, son of the preceding, was in the reign of Antoninus Pius or Marcus Aurelius,
remarkable only for his vices. The city praetor or the earlier part of that of Commodus, i.e. someinterdicted him from administering to his father's where between A. D. 156 and A. D. 185, and proestate; and the scandalous life of Fabius made the bably in the early part of that interval: another
prohibition to be universally approved. (Cic. Tus- Maximus occupied the same see from A. D. 185
cul. i. 33; Val. Max. iii. 5. ~ 2.) and the successive episcopates of himself and seven
11. Q. FABIUS Q. F. Q. N. MAXIMUS, with the successors occupy about eighty years, the length of
agnomen SERVILIANUS, was adopted from the gens each separate episcopate not being known. The
Servilia, by Fabius Aemilianus (No. 8). He was date therefore of this latter Maximus of Jerusalem
uterine brother of Cn. Servilius Caepio, consul in accords sufficiently with the notice in Jerome reB. C. 141. (Appian, IIispan. 70.) He was consul specting the writer; but it is remarkable that
in B.C. 142. His province was Lusitania, and the though both Eusebius and Jerome mention the
war with Viriarathus. (Appian, Iber. 67; Oros. bishop (Eusebius, Chronic. and Hieron. Euseb.
v. 4; Cic, ad Att. xii. 5; comp. de Orat. i. 26.) Citron. Ia2tepretatio), they do not either of them
Valerius Maximus (vi. 1. ~ 5, viii. 5. ~ 1)ascribes identify the writer with him; and it is reto Fabius a censorship which the Fasti do not markable that in the list given by Eusebils of
confirm. the bishops of Jerusalem in his lIistor. Eccles.
12. Q. FABIUS MAXIMUS EBURNUS, was city (v. 27), the names of the second Maximus and
praetor in B. C. 118, when he presided at the im- his successor, Antoninus, do not appear. It must
peachment of C. Papirius Carbo, accused of majestas be considered therefore uncertain whether the
by L. Crassus. (CARBO, PAPIRIUS, No. 2.; Cic. writer and the bishop are the same person, though
de Oralt. i. 26.) Fabius was consul in B. C. 116. it is most likely they were. The title of the-work
He condemned one of his sons to death for immo- of Maximus noticed by Jerome and Eusebius (for
rality; but being subsequently accused by Cn. the two questions of the origin of evil and the
Pompeius Strabo of exceeding the limits of the creation of matter appear to have been compre" patria potestas," he went into exile, and probably hended in one treatise) was rispIl rs'Ai7s, Do
to Nuceria. (Cic. pro Balb. 11; Val. Max. vi. 1. Alfateria. Eusebius has given a long extract from
~ 5; Oros. v. 16.) it. (Praep. Evang. vii. 21, 22.) The same extract, or a portion of it, is incorporated, without
acknowledgment, in the Dialogus Adamantii de
recta in Deum Fide, or Contra Marcionitas, sect.
iv. commonly ascribed to Origen, but in reality
written or compiled long after his time. It is also
quoted in the Pkilocalia, c. 24, compiled by Gregory
Nazianzen and Basil the Great, almost entirely
from the works of Origen. In the short inscription
COIN' OF FABIUS MAXIMUS. to the chapter they are said to be from the Praeparatio Evangelica of Eusebius; and their being
13. Q. FABIUS Q. r. Q. N. MAXIMUS, was contained also in the supposed work of Origen,
joined with Q. Caelius Rufus in B. C. 59, in the De Recta Fide, is affirmed in a probably interprosecution of C. Antonius Hybrida [ANToNIus, polated sentence of the concluding paragraph of
No. 10] for extortion in his province of Macedonia. the chapter. (Delarue, Opera Origenis, vol. i.,(Cic. in Vaiit. 11; Schol. Bob. in Vatinian. p. 321, p. 800, seq.) This passage, apparently the only
Orelli.) For his services as legatus to Caesar in part of Maximus' work which has come downm
Spain, B. C. 45 (Caes. B. H. 2, 41), he obtained a to us, is given in the Bibliotleca Patrum of
triumph and the consulship of that year on Caesar's Galland (vol. ii. p. 146), who identifies the author
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