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

130 FABATUS.- FABIA.
verse refers to the worship of that goddess at Lanuvium. (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 292, &c.)
F. FABE'RIUS. 1. Seems to have been a debtor
of M. Cicero's, since in several of his letters to
FABA'TUS, CALPU'RNIUS, a Roman Atticus (ad Att. xii. 21, 25, 51, xiii. 8), Cicero
knight, accused by suborned informers in A. D. 64, speaks of him as a person from whom a certain sum
of being privy to the crimes of adultery and magi- was due, and should be demanded, in case of the
cal arts which were alleged against Lepida, the purchase of some gardens in Rome (Horti Drusiwife of C. Cassius. By an appeal to Nero, judg- ani, Lamiani, &c.), which Cicero wished to buy.
ment against Fabatus was deferred, and he eventu- He was however, after a time, disposed to -be
ally eluded the accusation. (Tac. Ann. xvi. 8.) lenient with Faberius (ad Att. xv. 13). If by
Fabatus was grandfather to Calpurnia, wife of the Meto (in Epist. ad Att. xii. 51) Caesar be meant,
younger Pliny. (Plin. Ep. viii. 10.) He possessed in allusion to his reformation of the calendar (Suet.
a country house, Villa Camilliana, in Campania. Caes. 40), the interest on the money owed by Fa(Id. vi. 30.) He long survived his son, Pliny's berius to Cicero may have been affected by the
father-in-law, in memory of whom he erected a extension of the current year B. C. 46. Cicero
portico at Comum, in Cisalpin6 Gaul. (v. 12.) Ac- seems to have been cautious of giving offence to
cording to an inscription (Gruter, Inscript. p. 382), Faberius; and if he were the same person with
Fabatus died at Comum. The following letters Caesar's private secretary, mentioned below, and
are addressed by Pliny to Fabatus, his prosocer the transaction between them, as has been sup(iv. 1, v. 12, vi. 12, 30, vii. 11, 16, 23, 32, viii. posed, referred to property sold or confiscated
10). [W. B. D.] during the civil wars, Cicero's reluctance to enforce
FABA'TUS, L. RO'SCIUS, was one of Caesar's payment may in B. c. 45 have been prudent as
lieutenants in the Gallic war, and commanded the well as lenient.
thirteenth legion on the Lower Rhine, in the 2. One of the private secretaries of C. Julius
winter of B. C. 54. It was during this winter that Caesar. After Caesar's assassination, in B. C. 44,
Ambiorix [AMBIORIX] induced the Eburones and Antony attached to himself Faberius, by whose aid
Nervii to attack in detail the quarters of the he inserted whatever he chose into the late dicRoman legions, but in the operations consequent tator's papers. Since a decree of the senate had
on their revolt Fabatus seems to have taken no previously declared all Caesar's acts, and his will,
part, since the district in which he was stationed valid and binding on the state, Antony, by emremained quiet. (Caes. B. G. v. 24.) He apprised ploying one of Caesar's own secretaries, could inCaesar, however, of hostile movements in Armorica sert, without danger of detection, whatever he
in the same winter. (Ibid. 53.) Fabatus was one wished into the papers (uroluavAraa), since the auof the praetors in B. c. 49, and was sent by Pompey tograph of Faberius made it difficult to distinguish
from Rome to Caesar at Ariminum, with proposals the genuine from the spurious memoranda. (Apof accommodation, both public and private. He' pian, B. C. iii. 5.) Dion Cassius (xliv. 3) says
was charged by Caesar with counter-proposals, that Antony secured the services of Caesar's secrewhich he delivered to Pompey and the consuls at taries, but he does not name Faberius. [W.B.D.]
Capua. (Cic. ad Att. viii. 12; Caes. B. C. i. FA'BIA, the name of two daughters of the patri8, 10; Dion Cass. xli. 5.) Fabatus was des- cian M. Fabius Ambustus. The elder was married
patched on a second mission to Caesar by those to Ser. Sulpicius, a patrician, and one of the milimembers of the Pompeian party who were anxious tary tribunes of the year B. C. 376, and the younger
for peace. (Dion Cass. 1. c.) As Cicero mentions to the plebeian C. Licinius Stolo, who is said to
his meeting with L. Caesar at Minturnae on his have been urged on to his legislation by the vanity
return from Ariminum, and as L. Caesar was the of his wife. Once, so the story runs, while the
companion of Fabatus, at least on their first jour- younger Fabia was staying with her sister, a lictor
ney to and from C. Caesar, Fabatus, though not knocked at the door to announce the return of Ser.
expressly named by him, probably met Cicero at Sulpicius from the forum. This noise frightened
Minturnae also, and communicated Caesar's offers, the younger Fabia, who was unaccustomed to such
January 22. B. C. 49. (Cic. ad Att. vii. 13.) things, and her elder sister ridiculed her for her
According to Cicero (ad Att. vii. 14), Fabatus ignorance. This, as well as the other honours
and L. Caesar, on their return from Ariminum, which were paid to Servilius, deeply wounded the
delivered Caesar's offer to Pompey, not at Capua, vanity of the younger Fabia, and her jealousy and
but at Teanum. Fabatus was killed April 14th envy made her unhappy. Her father perceived
or 15th, B. C. 43, in the first of the battles in the that she was suffering from something, and conneighbourhood of Mutina, between M. Antony trived to elicit the cause of her grief. He then
and the legions of the senate. (Cic. ad Fam. x. consoled her by telling her that shortly she should
33.) [W. B. D.] see the same honours and distinctions conferred
Whether the annexed coin, which bears the upon her own husband, and thereupon he consulted
name of L. Roscius Fabatus, belongs to the Fabatus with C. Licinius Stolo about the steps to be taken
for this purpose; and L. Sextius being let into the
secret, a plot was formed of which the legislation
of C. Licinius and L. Sextius was the result. (Liv.
vi. 34; Zonar. vii. 24; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Illustr.
20-) The improbability and inconsistency of this
story has long since been exploded, for how could
the younger Fabia have been ignorant of or startled
by the distinctions enjoyed by her sister's husband,
above mentioned, is doubtful. It represents on as her own father had been invested with the same
the obverse the head of Juno Sospita, and the re- office in B. C. 381? The story must therefore be