Fabius Rusticus

Fabius Rusticus was a Roman historian during the reign of the Flavian dynasty.

Fabius Rusticus probably came from Spain and was a young friend of Seneca. He wrote well in the Flavian period, a historical work that used the later historian Tacitus for his work on the Neronian period, and probably also for the Four Emperors year. In the work of Rusticus Tacitus especially appreciated his style, but criticized his bias for Seneca. Fabius Rusticus Perhaps the anonymous historian who Quintilian gives high praise. If it is identical to the same recipient of a bequest from the will of the Dasumius, he was still alive in the year 108 AD in the context of Tacitus and Pliny the Younger.

The fragments are collected in The Fragments of the Roman Historians (No. 87).

Swell

• P. Cornelius Tacitus. Annals. Latin - German. Edited by Erich Heller. With an introduction by Manfred Fuhrmann ( Tusculum Collection ). Dusseldorf and Zurich 3rd edition 1997.
• Tacitus. Agricola. Latin - German. Translated, illustrated and with an afterword edited by Robert Feger. (RUB 836) Stuttgart 1973.