Quintus Fabius Ambustus (tribune)
Quintus Fabius Ambustus came from the Roman patrician family of the Fabians and was 390 BC Konsulartribun.
Life
The tradition of Quintus Fabius Ambustus to the runway is extremely uncertain. In the ancient magistrate lists he was listed for the year 390 BC as one of six Konsulartribunen. He is after the later Roman annalists with his two brothers and Kaeso Numerius by internationally wrongful approach the Gauls or Celts led it to march against Rome and conquer the city. After the oldest extant version of this story, offered by the Greek historian Diodorus of Sicily -, two Roman envoys, whose names are not specified proceeded, 390 BC, to spy on the Celtic army in the disputed city of the Celts Clusium. They helped the Clusinern against their besiegers, and one of the Messengers killing one leader of the Celts. This required under the so committed violation of international law of Rome the delivery of the guilty and refused to initially offered financial compensation. The Senate would then meet the demand of the Celts, but the father of the threatened with extradition envoy was an influential man who held the Konsulartribunat this year and turned to the people who told the Senate decision is invalid. The angry Celts then stormed Rome.
A younger, different narrative is palpable in particular the Roman historian Livy. According to him, Quintus Fabius were Ambustus and his two brothers, sons of an otherwise unknown Marcus Fabius Ambustus and have been 391 BC, one year before the conquest of Rome, according to Clusium sent, which had asked because of the danger posed by the Celts to support Roman. The three Fabians should negotiate with the Celts and they warn of an attack, clashed with their concerns but on deaf ears. As with Diodorus' version of the Messenger now intervened on the side of Clusiner in the fight, with Quintus Fabius Ambustus stabbed a significant opposition chief with a spear. So when the Celts insisted that Rome had to deliver the three ambassadors, senators, leaving the further procedure to the people. As a result, the Fabians, who understood their influence and play to their popularity, were BC, chosen for 390 in the six -member panel of the highest magistrates, called Konsulartribunen. This caused great indignation among the Celts produced and released their devastating train to Rome.
According to the report of Diodorus to judge, only two nameless, sent by Clusium Roman envoys seem to have been mentioned in the ancient sources, one of which was one of the then reigning Konsulartribunen of a son; in the same year, the Gallic capture of Rome had taken place. Three of the six highest magistrates were then Fabians, and subsequent transformation probably made from the son of Konsulartribunen yourself a Konsulartribunen, identified this with one of the Fabians and left him as well as his two other family members who were supposedly his brothers, a year before the taking their hometown to go as envoys to Clusium. The whole story lacks, according to the judgment of the Ancient Historian Friedrich Munzer any historicity.
According to Livy, Quintus Fabius Ambustus to 389 BC indicted for his internationally wrongful conduct by the tribunes Gnaeus Marcius, be but died before the start of the process; Possibly this was a suicide in order to escape a looming condemnation.