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nius also proposed a lex sumtuaria (Gell. ii. 24; C. f. consul B. c. 122; 2. C. Fannius, M. f. tribine
Macrob. Sat. ii. 13; Plin. H. N. x. 50. s. 71). B. C. 142, and 3. C. Fannius, M. f., the son-in-law
2. C. FANNIUS C. F. STRABO, the son of the of Laelius and the historian. But the creation of
preceding, was consul B. C. 122 with Cn. Domitius another person of the same name in order to get
Ahenobarbus. In his tribuneship of the plebs he out of a chronological difficulty, is always suspihad followed the guidance and advice of Scipio cious; and if there were three C. Fannii, who were
Africanus senior. Fannius owed his election to contemporaries, Cicero would hardly have omitted
the consulship chiefly to the influence of C. Grac- to mention them, especially since he speaks of the
chus, who canvassed the people on his behalf1 as two C. Fannii in such close connection. Orelli
he was anxious to prevent his enemy Opimius supposes (Onom. Tull. 1. c.) that C. Fannius, the
from obtaining the office. But as soon as Fannius son-in-law of Laelius, was tribune of the soldiers
entered upon the consulship, he supported the in Spain in B. C. 142, and that Cicero confounded
aristocracy, and took an active part in opposing the this tribuneship with the tribuneship of the plebs.
measures of Gracchus. He published a proclama- But this supposition of Orelli cannot be correct, if
tion commanding all the Italian allies to leave Cicero (de Rep. i. 12) is right in his statement
Rome, and he spoke against the proposal of Grac- that the son-in-law of Laelius was only of quaeschus, who wished to give the Roman franchise to torian age in B. C. 129, that is, not more than thirty,
the Latins. This speech was preserved and was since in that case he would not have been old
regarded as a master-piece in the time of Cicero. enough to have been tribune of the soldiers in B. c.
Many persons questioned whether it had been 142. It is much more probable that Cicero concomposed by Fannius himself, as he had the repu- founded C. Fannius, M. f., the son-in-law of Laetation of being only a middling orator; but Cicero lius, with C. Fannius, C. f., and that the latter
assigns it to him. It continued to be read by the was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 142. It is, howgrammarians (Cic. Brut. 26; Plin. H. N. ii. 32; ever, quite impossible to reconcile all the statePlut. C. Gracch/. 8, 11, 12; Cic. de Orat. iii. 47; ments of ancient writers respecting this C. Fannius.
Jul. Vict. de Art. Rhet. p. 224, ed. Orelli; Meyer, According to his own statement, as preserved by
Orat. Roen. Fragin. p. 191, &c., 2d ed.) Plutarch (Tib. Gracch. 4), he was one of the first
3. C. FANNIUS M. F. STRABO, the son-in-law to mount the walls of Carthage in B. C. 146, but if
of Laelius, is frequently confounded with C. Fan- he was thirty in B. c. 129, he could only have been
nius C. f. [No. 2.] In his youth he served in thirteen in the former year!
Africa, under Scipio Africanus, in B. C. 146, and STRABO, C. JU'LIUS CAESAR. [CAEalong with Tib. Gracchus, was the first to mount SAR, No. 10.]
the walls of Carthage on the capture of the city. STRABO, M. LAE'NIUS, of Brundisium, a
He afterwards served in Spain with distinction, in Roman eques and a friend of Varro, was the first
B. C. 142, under Fabius Maximus Servilianus. person who introduced the use of the aviaries, in
(Plut. Tib. Gracch. 4; Appian, Hisp. 67.) Fan- which birds of various kinds were kept. (Varr.
nius is introduced by Cicero as one of the speakers R. R. iii 5. ~ 8; Plin. H. N. x. 50, s. 72, where he
both in his work De Republica, and in his treatise is erroneously called M. Laelius Strabo.)
De Amniciti. At the advice of his father-in-law STRABO, CN. POMPEIUS. [POMPEIus,
Laelius, Fannius had attended the lectures of the No. 21.]
Stoic philosopher, Panaetius. His style of speak- STRABO, SEIUS, a Roman eques, was coming was harsher-than that of his namesake, C. mander of the praetorian troops at the latter end
Fannius C. f., and none of his orations are men- of the reign of Augustus and the commencement
tioned by Cicero. iHe owed his celebrity in of that of Tiberius. Ile was subsequently sent
literature to his History, which was written in by the latter emperor to govern Egypt, and was
Latin, and the style of which is described by Ci- then succeeded in the sole command of the praecero as "neque nimis infans neque perfecte di- torian troops by his son, the notorious Sejanus, who
serta." We have no information respecting the had shared with him the command from the first
extent of this History; we only know that it year of the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. Ann. i. 7,
treated of contemporary events; and that it pos- 24, iv. 1; Dion Cass. lvii. 19.) [SEJANUS.]
sessed some merit appears from the fact of Brutus STRABO, TI'TIUS. 1. C., belonged to the
making an abridgment of it. Sallust likewise republican party on the death of Caesar. (Cic.
praises its truth. (Cic. de Rep. i. 12, Lael. 1, ad Facs. xii. 6.)
Brut. 26, 31, comp. 21, de Leg. i. 2, ad Att. xii. 5; 2. L., a Roman eques, whom Cicero introduced
Sail. ap. Victorien. p- 57, ed. Orelli; Krause, Vitae to M. Brutus (ad Famr. xiii. 14).
et Fragm. Hist. Roem. p. 171, &c.; Orelli, Onom. STRABO, L. VOLTEIUS, known only from
Tull. pp. 249, 250.) coins, a specimen of which is annexed. The
One of the difficulties respecting this C. Fannius obverse represents the head of Jupiter, the reverse
M. f. arises from a letter of Cicero, in which he Europa carried away on the bull. (Eckhel, vol. v.
writes to Atticus to ask him under what consuls p. 345.)
C. Fannius M. f. was tribune of the plebs, adding
that he believed that it was during the censorship
of P. Africanus and L. Mummius, that is, in B. C.
142 (Cic. ad Att. xvi. 13, c.). Pighius therefore A
concluded from this passage, that the C. Fannius
M. f. who was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 142,
must have been a different person from the son-in-, -
law of Laelius, who was serving that year in
Spain, as we have already seen; and he accordingly supposes that there were three contemporaries
of the name of C. Fannius, namely, 1. C. Fannius, COIN OF L. VOLTEIUS STRABO.