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fused the triumph which the senate offered him. following year, B. C. 458, when the two consuls
The care which M. Fabius showed for the wounded marched with their two armies against the Saand his reconciliation to the plebeians have been bines and Aequians, Fabius was left behind with
related above [No. 2]. Dionysius says that Fabius a third for the protection of Rome. This is the
resigned his consulship two months before the ex- account of Dionysius, but Livy simply says that
piration of his year, because his wounds prevented he was one of the three ambassadors sent in that
him from discharging the duties of his office. year to Cloelius Gracchus, the leader of the
(Liv. ii. 43-47; Dionys. ix. 5-13; Frontin. Aequians. (Liv. iii. 22-25; Dionys. x. 20-22.)
Strat. i. 11. ~ 1-; Val. Max. v. 5. ~ 2.) In the fol- In B. C. 450 Fabius was elected a member of
lowing year, B. c. 479, M. Fabius accompanied the second decemvirate, and along with his col.
the rest of his gens to their fatal settlement on the leagues continued illegally in power ill the folCremera and perished along with them two years lowing year. Ap. Claudius and Fabius were the
afterwards. Dionysius (ix. 15) represents Marcus two leading members of the second decemvirate,
as the leader of the Fabii in their migration from and Fabius supported his colleague in all his tyran
Rome, but Livy (ii. 49) undoubtedly follows the nical acts. When the war with the Aequians and
genuine legend in making the consul Kaeso head Sabines broke out Fabius was appointed to the
his gens on that occasion. command with two colleagues, while Appius re4. Q. FABIUS M. F. K. F.VIBULANUS, the son of mained in the city. Fabius must have ordered
No. 3, is said to have been the only one of the the murder of L. Siccius [SIccIus], who was
Fabii who survived the destruction of his gens at serving in the army against the Sabines, but his
the Cremera, but he could not have been left be- name is not mentioned in connection with this foul
hind at Rome on account of his youth, as the deed. This probably arose from Livy and Diolegend relates. [See above, No. 2, sub finem.] nysius having the Annals of Falbius Pictor before
He was consul in B. C. 467 with Ti. Aemilius Ma- them, in which the virtues of the Fabii were exmercus, when he supported the patrician party tolled and their faults omitted. After the abolition
against the tribunes. The latter, having the co- of the decenlvirate and the death of Ap. Claudius
operation of the other consul, made a vigorous effort and Oppius, Fabius shared the faite of his remaining
to carry the agrarian law; but Fabius effected a colleagues; he went into exile and his property
compromise by proposing that a colony should be was confiscated. (Liv. iii. 35, 41, 58; Dionys. x.
founded at Antium, which had been conquered by 58, xi. 23, 46.)
the Romans in the preceding year. He subse- Q. Fabius is said to have married the daughter
quently marched against the Aequians, who sued of Numerius Otacilius of Maleventum on account
for peace, which was granted them; but they of her wealth, with the condition that his first child
soon afterwards broke it and made an inroad into should receive the praenomen of its maternal grandthe Latin territory. (Liv. iii. 1; Dionys. ix. 59.) father; and it is stated that it was in this way that
In B. c. 465 Fabius was consul a second time Numerius became a praenomen in a patrician gene,
with T. Quintius Capitolinus Barbatus. He was which it had not been before. (Festus, s.v. Nuappointed to carry on the war with the Aequians, merius, pp. 170, 173, ed. Miiller.) We find howwhich had been continued ever since his first con- ever that the elder of his two sons bore the praesnlship. The ambassadors whom he sent to the nomen Marcus, and the younger that of Numerius
A equians were treated with contempt, at which [Nos. 5 and 6]; but it has been conjectured that
the Romans were so much enraged that Quintius the elder may have been a son by a former marmarched out of the city with another consular riage.
army to support his colleague. According to Livy 5. M. FABIUS Q. F. M. N. VIBULANUS, eldest
the consuls defeated the Aequians, who withdrew son of No. 4, was consul B. c. 442 with Postumus
from Mount Algidus into their own territory; Aebutius Elva Cornicen, in which year a colony
but Dionysius says that the battle was not de- was founded at Ardea. In B. C. 437 he served as
cisive, which is more in accordance with Livy's legatus of the dictator Mane. Aemilius Mamercinus
subsequent narrative, in which it is stated that the in the war against the Veientes and Fidenates. In
Aequians made incursions into the Roman territory B. C. 433 he was one of the consular tribunes; and
for plunder, which were avenged by Fabius de- in B. C. 431 he served as legatus of the dictator
vastating the lands of the Aequians. (Liv. iii. A. Postumius Tubertus in the great war against the
2, 3; Dionys. ix. 61.) Three years afterwards, Aequians and Volscians. He lived till the capture
B. C. 462, Fabius was appointed Praefectus Urbi, of Rome by the Gauls, B. C. 390, where he is spoken
while the two consuls were absent from the city. of as pontifex maximus, and is said to have reThe tribune C. Terentillus Arsa took advantage of hearsed the solemn formula, which was repeated
the absence of the consuls to propose a rogation for after him by the aged senators who had resolved
appointing five commissioners, who might draw up to await the entrance of the Gauls into the city,
laws to limit the power of the consuls. There- and who accordingly dedicated themselves to death.
upon Fabius called together the senate and in- (Liv. iv. 1I; Diod. xii. 34; Liv. iv. 17, 19, 25
veighed with such vehemence against the rogation Diod. xii. 58; Liv. iv. 27, 28, v. 41.)
and its author, that even both the consuls could 6. N. FABIUS Q. F. M. N. VIBULATNUS, second
not have inspired greater fear. On the advice of son of No. 4, was consul B. C. 421 with T. Quintius
his colleagues Terentillus withdrew his proposal. Capitolinus Barbatus. He carried on war against
(Liv. iii. 9; Dionys. ix. 69.) the Aequians, whom he put to flight without any
In B. C. 459 Fabius was consul a third time difficulty: he was refused a triumph, but received
with L. Cornelius Maluginensis. In this year he the honour of an ovation. It was in this year that
defeated the Volscians, who had laid siege to the consuls proposed that in addition to the two
Antium, and also the Aequians, who had taken city quaestors, two others should be appointed to
Tusculum, and on account of these victories cele- attend upon the consuls in time of war. This probrated a triumph on his return to Rome. In the posal gave rise to great contests, as the tribunes
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