Fabia (gens)

Fabius (female Fabia Germanized, Fabians ) was the noun of the gens Fabia in the Roman Empire. The Fabians were one of the leading patrician families ( gentes maiores ) of the city.

Based on the reputation of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ' to perform actions only after long reflection and hesitation, to socialist groups gave the name Fabian in the 19th century. These were programmatically expressed on a social and kulturreformerischen way and stood against the revolutionaries. The best known example of such groups, which consisted rather small and mainly of intellectuals, was the Fabian Society in Britain. Groups of similar import also occurred in New Zealand or Austria. Existed in many other countries and there Fabians, but often have few members and have little political significance.

Family of the Fabians

At the beginning of the 5th century BC, the Fabians had (according to the strongly shaped legendary tradition ) holds the leading position in Rome. As the founder of the family was Kaeso Fabius Vibulanus whose three sons Quintus, Kaeso and Marcus to have BC alternately held the consulate in the years 485-479. 477 BC fell in the war against Veii according to legend, about 300 members of the family, which led to a temporary loss of meaning. In the 4th century BC, however, they went up again.

Fabius Maximus Rullianus was 322-295 BC, five times consul and one of the outstanding people in the war against the Samnites. Even more significant was Fabius Maximus Verrucosus who fought in the Second Punic War against Hannibal. Key members of the family are:

  • Quintus Fabius Maximus ( Allobrogicus ), praetor,
  • Quintus Fabius Pictor, Senator and the first Roman historian,
  • Fabius Rusticus, historian,
  • Marcus Fabius Quintilian ( Quintilian ) - rhetorician,
  • Q. Fabius Vibulanus, consul 485 and 482 BC,
  • Kaeso Fabius Vibulanus, consul 484, 481 and 479 BC,
  • M. Fabius Vibulanus, consul 483 and 480 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Vibulanus, consul 467, 465, and 459 BC, decemvir 450 and 449 BC,
  • M. Fabius Vibulanus, consul 442 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Vibulanus Ambustus, consul 423 and 412 BC, a military tribune 416 and 414 BC,
  • Cn. (or N. ) Vibulanus Fabius, consul 421 BC, a military tribune in 415 BC,
  • N. Fabius Ambustus, Konsulartribun 406 and 390 BC
  • Q. Fabius Ambustus, Konsulartribun 390 BC
  • M. Fabius Ambustus, military tribune 381 BC,
  • M. Fabius Ambustus, consul 360, 356 and 354 BC,
  • C. Fabius Ambustus, consul 358 BC,
  • M. Fabius Dorsuo, consul 345 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus, dictator, censor, consul 322, 310, 308, 297 and 295 BC,
  • Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, consul 292 and 276 BC,
  • C. Fabius Dorso Licinus, consul 273 BC,
  • C. Fabius Pictor, 304 BC Founder of frescoes for a temple
  • C. Fabius Pictor, consul 269 BC,
  • N. Fabius Pictor, consul 266 BC,
  • Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges, consul 265 BC,
  • N. Fabius Buteo, consul 247 BC
  • M. Fabius Licinius, consul in 246 BC,
  • M. Fabius Buteo, consul 245 BC,
  • Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus called Cunctator, consul 233, 228, 214, 213 and 209 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Maximus, son of Cunctator, consul 213 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Labeo, consul 183 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, consul 145 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Maximus Servilianus, consul in 142 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus, consul in 121 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Maximus Eburnus, consul 116 BC, censor 108 BC,
  • Q. Fabius Maximus, consul in 45 BC,
  • Paullus Fabius Maximus, son of the preceding, consul 11 BC,
  • Africanus Fabius Maximus, brother of the preceding, consul 10 BC,
  • Paullus Fabius Persicus, consul 34,
  • L. Fabius Justus, consul 102,
  • Q. Fabius Catullinus, consul 130,
  • L. Fabius Bile, Suffektkonsul 131
  • Q. Fabius Julian, Suffektkonsul 131
  • L. Fabius Cilo, consul 193 and 204,
  • Titianus Fabius, consul 337
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