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Quintus Fabius Maximus (augur 203 BC)
Quintus Fabius Maximus may refer to: * Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 213 BC), Roman senator * Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC), Roman senator * Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, Roman senator * Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, Roman senator * Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus, Roman senator * Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC), Roman senator * Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 265 BC), Roman senator * Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, Roman general * Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus (consul 142 BC), Roman senator and priest; adoptive son of QFM Aemilianus * Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (), surnamed Cunctator ( 280 – 203 BC), was a Roman statesman and general of the third century BC. He was Roman consul, consul five times (233, 228, 215, 214, and 209 BC) and was appointed Roman dictator, dict ... ("Cunctator") (d. 203 BC), Roman general, two-time dictator See also * {{hndab, Fabius Maximus, Quintus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 213 BC)
Quintus Fabius Maximus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 213 BC. He was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the famous ''dictator'' who invented Fabian strategy, and served with his father during the Second Punic War. The younger Fabius was a military tribune in 216 BC, and was among the survivors of the Battle of Cannae who ended up at Canusium. In 215, he was curule aedile. As praetor in 214, he commanded two legions with which he captured Acuca in Luceria as well as a fortified camp near Ardoneae. As consul for the following year, he took over his father's command of the army in Apulia and recaptured Arpi. He seems to have remained in Arpi with a few troops as a ''legatus'', a legate or lieutenant, in 212 BC. In 209–208, he was serving still or again as a ''legatus'' during his father's fifth consulship. The elder Fabius sent him to recover the survivors of the army under Gnaeus Fulvius Centumalus, who had been killed in a surprise attack by Hannibal in 210. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus (consul 45 BC)
Quintus Fabius Maximus (possibly Quintus Fabius Maximus Sanga) (died 31 December 45 BC) was a general and politician of the late Roman Republic who became suffect consul in 45 BC. Biography Maximus was a member of the patrician ''gens Fabia''. His father was Quintus Fabius Maximus, son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, the consul in 121 BC. His great-grandfather, Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, was also a consul, serving in 145 BC. He first came to notice in 59 BC when, together with Marcus Caelius Rufus, he prosecuted Gaius Antonius Hybrida for extortion in his province of Macedonia. Although Cicero served as lead counsel for the defense, Fabius Maximus and Caelius Rufus were successful. He was elected Curule aedile in 57 BC, during which time he restored the ''Fornix Fabianus'' ( Arch of Fabius). Sometime prior to 48 BC, he was elected praetor. In 46 BC, he was one of Julius Caesar's legates who fought in the civil war. Maximus was sent by Caesar to Hispania along w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus
Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus was a Roman statesman and consul (145 BC). Fabius was by adoption a member of the patrician gens Fabia, but by birth he was the eldest son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and Papiria Masonis and the elder brother of Scipio Aemilianus. He was the father of Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus. Fabius served under his biological father in the Third Macedonian War. After the Battle of Pydna The Battle of Pydna took place in 168 BC between Rome and Macedon during the Third Macedonian War. The battle saw the further ascendancy of Rome in the Hellenistic world and the end of the Antigonid line of kings, whose power traced back ... his father sent him to Rome to announce his victory. Fabius served as praetor in Sicily in 149 BC to 148 BC and was elected consul for 145 BC. After his consulship he went as proconsul to Hispania where he fought and defeated Viriathus in an episode of the Lusitanian War but failed to capture him. The war ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus
Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, was a Roman statesman and general who was elected consul in 121 BC. During his consulship he fought against the Arverni and the Allobroges whom he defeated in 120 BC. He was awarded a triumph and the agnomen Allobrogicus for his victory over the Gauls. Career Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, the Roman consul of 145 BC, and a member of the patrician '' gens Fabia''.Allobrogicus was a member of the ''gens Fabia'' through the adoption of his father; his paternal grandfather was Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus. His first appearance was during the elections for quaestor in 134 BC; he was recommended to the voters as a candidate by his biological uncle Scipio Aemilianus, and after Allobrogicus was elected, Scipio took him as his quaestor to Hispania Citerior where they fought in the Second Numantine War. While there, Allobrogicus was placed in charge of 4,000 volunteers. By 124 BC, he had been electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus
Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus (fl. 2nd century BC) was a Roman statesman of the patrician ''gens'' Fabia. He was consul in 116 BC. Family Eburnus was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus, consul in 142 BC, himself adopted from the gens Servilia into the gens Fabia, allegedly by one of the two adoptive sons of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus himself. Two of his paternal uncles— Gnaeus Servilius Caepio and Quintus Servilius Caepio—served as consuls in 141 and 140, respectively. His first cousin was Quintus Servilius Caepio, consul in 106 BC and the co-commander at Arausio in 105 (this Caepio was paternal grandfather of Caesar's lover Servilia). Career Eburnus may have been a '' monetalis'' around 134 BC. He was most likely the Quintus Fabius Maximus who was quaestor in 132, serving in Sicily under his father-in-law Publius Rupilius, who was a consul that year. Eburnus was held responsible for losing control of the city of Tauromenium to the slave uprising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)
Quintus Fabius Q. f. M. n. Maximus Gurges, the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, was consul in 292, 276, and 265 BC. After a dissolute youth and a significant military defeat during his first consulate, he was given the opportunity to salvage his reputation through the influence of his father, and became a successful general, eventually holding the highest honours of the Roman state. He was slain in battle during his third and final consulate.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. II, pp. 992, 993 (Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges).Broughton, vol. I, pp. 181–183, 195, 201, 202. Background and early career Gurges' grandfather, Marcus Fabius Ambustus, had been consul three times, interrex twice, and reportedly was princeps senatus, a dignity later filled by his son, grandson, and great-grandson. He had probably been censor, which was generally a prerequisite of those who became princeps senatus, and either he or his son, Marcus was magister equitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 265 BC)
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges was Roman consul in 265 BC, and died of wounds received in battle at Volsinii, where he had been sent to help put down a revolt. There is some uncertainty as to his identity.Broughton, pp. 200–202. Controversy Traditionally the consul of 265 has been identified as the same Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges who had previously been consul in 292 and 276 BC. This Gurges was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus, and is usually regarded as the father of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus. Livy describes Verrucosus as the grandson of Rullianus, and thus the son of Gurges, but passages in Plutarch and Pliny referring to Verrucosus as the great-grandson of Rullianus imply the existence of an intervening generation. Although Verrucosus is said to have served as an augur for sixty-two years at the time of his death in 203 BC, and thus would have been at least a young man in 265, the interval between his first consulship, in 233 BC, and that of Gurges, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus
Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus (or Rullus) was a Patrician (ancient Rome), patrician, politician and soldier of the Roman Republic during the fourth and early third century BC. He was the son of Marcus Fabius Ambustus (consul 360 BC), Marcus Fabius Ambustus, of the Patrician (ancient Rome), patrician Fabii, was five times Roman consul, consul, Roman dictator, dictator once (possibly twice), Roman censor, censor, and a hero of the Samnite Wars. He was brother to Marcus Fabius Ambustus (magister equitum 322 BC), Marcus Fabius Ambustus , who was named after their father, and the grandfather (or great-grandfather) of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus (hero of the Second Punic War). His first appearance in surviving records is as magister equitum in 325 BC, when he won a daring victory against the Samnites at Battle of Imbrinium, Imbrinium. However, he had acted without the authority of the Roman dictator, dictator Lucius Papirius Cursor, who was angry and demanded that the Roman Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus
Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus was the adoptive son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus and the natural son of Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (consul in 169 BC)--hence the adoptive cognomen Servilianus. He was consul of the Roman Republic in 142 BC together with Lucius Caecilius Metellus Calvus. He was the brother of Gnaeus Servilius Caepio (consul of 141 BC and censor in 125) and Quintus Servilius Caepio (consul in 140 BC). All three brothers were commanders in the Roman Province of Hispania Ulterior (Further Spain) and fought in the Lusitanian War. Servilianus was born into the patrician gens Servilia before his adoption. His early career is unknown, but it is speculated that he would have been elected praetor by 145 BC. Servilianus was also a priest and member of the College of Pontiffs. He wrote twelve books on sacred laws. After his election as consul in 142 BC, Servilianus was sent to Hispania Ulterior and was given command of the Lusitanian War. He took with him two legion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
