Paullus Fabius Persicus

Paullus Fabius Persicus was a Roman senator in the early imperial period.

Paullus Fabius Persicus came altpatrizischen the Fabians, who belonged to the Aemilii, Claudian, Corneliern and Valeriern the five great houses of the Roman patricians. He was the son of the consul 11 BC, Paullus Fabius Maximus, and Marcia, daughter of Lucius Marcius Philippus, a cousin of Augustus.

Paullus Fabius Persicus was born about 1 AD. According to his high descent, he was co-opted in the year 15 in the footsteps of his father in the aristocratic priesthood of Arvalbrüder. He was quaestor Augusti of the Emperor Tiberius and the earliest possible time ( for patrician was a minimum age of 33 years prescribed ) in 34 ordinary consul for the period from 1 January to 30 June. Probably 43/44 he was proconsul of the province of Asia and sorted out at the behest of Emperor Claudius abuses in the financial management of the Artemision and the city of Ephesus.

Under the Emperor Claudius Paullus Fabius was chairman of the trustees of the Tiber regulation ( curatores ripae et alvei Tiber ). The Emperor mentioned him in his inscriptions preserved speech on clothing of offices by the Gauls. He also held the offices of a priest sodalis Augustalis and a pontiff.

Paullus Fabius Persicus shall have According to Seneca led a dissolute life. Since it no longer appears in the files of Arvalbrüder since 55 AD, he must have died around this time.

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