Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus

Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus († probably before 100 BC) was descended from the noble family of the Fabians and was in 121 BC consul.

Life

Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, the BC 145 officiated as consul.

Although it supposedly was not in his youth to Fabius ' reputation for good, he received from his uncle Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus help choosing the Quaestors 134 BC and became therefore this post. Scipio led this year as consul in command of the Roman forces in Spain, was probably assigned as Bursar at his request Fabius and ordered him to gain an army of 4,000 volunteer soldiers brought along. As Scipio died 129 BC, Fabius managed together with another nephew of the dead, Quintus Aelius Tubero, the funeral ceremonies. In addition, Fabius argued the grave speech, whose author, however, Gaius Laelius was. As praetor and then propraetor (probably 124-123 BC) Fabius held again in Spain and was warned by the Senate, as Gaius Sempronius Gracchus had him accused of plundering the subjects of his province.

The consulate received Fabius in 121 BC, together with Lucius Opimius. He got Gallia Transalpina assigned as a province and successfully fought on the side of his predecessor in the Consulate, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, against the Allobrogians and Arverni. Both won on August 8, at the mouth of the Isère in the Rhone a decisive victory over the Spanish tribes, although Fabius was suffering from a disease. As he held the highest office in this year, it was granted at the honors of precedence Ahenobarbus. So he could after his consulate was the first to hold a triumph, in which the captive king of the Arverni, Bituitus, was shown in his silver armor. The testimonies that Fabius received the surname Allobrogicus result of his victory in Spain, come only from the authors of the first century AD This cognomen is not yet listed, for example, in the Triumphalakten, so he does not get officially awarded can have. As a sign of his victory, he was at the site of the decisive battle build a monument. With the captured treasures in Gaul he arranged further the construction of the fornix Fabian mentioned victory arch in the Forum Romanum. The Allobrogians revered the gender of the Fabians since the confrontation with the one here Fabius very much and saw its members in part as a patron of.

Fabius ' further career is unclear, because you do not know exactly whether BC an embassy Quintus Fabius Maximus he or Eburnus belonged to Crete 113 and 108 BC, a censor was. Anyway, he probably died before 100 BC, as Marcus Tullius Cicero does not count him among the living at this time leading Optimates. After closely familiar with him poet Lucius Accius, he was very well educated.