Lucius Fabius Gallus

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Lucius Fabius Gallus was a Roman senator active during the first half of the second century AD. He was suffect consul for 131 with Quintus Fabius Julianus as his colleague. [1] Gallus is known only from non-literary sources.

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Quintus Fabius Julianus was a Roman senator active during the first half of the second century AD. He was suffect consul for the nundinium of May-August 131 as the colleague of Lucius Fabius Gallus. He is known only through surviving inscriptions.

Until the publication of the military diploma mentioning him in 2005, Gallus was known only from stamps on lead pipes dated to the second century, attesting that he was the owner of a private water supply in Rome; [2] even before the diploma had been found, Gallus had been believed to be of senatorial rank. Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl admit that the owner of the water supply could be a descendant of the suffect consul. It is also possible that Gallus might also be related to his consular partner Julianus. [3]

Werner Eck is Professor of Ancient History at Cologne University and a noted expert on the history of imperial Rome.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Sergius Octavius Laenas Pontianus,
and Marcus Antonius Rufinus

as Ordinary consuls
Consul of the Roman Empire
131
with Quintus Fabius Julianus
Succeeded by
Gaius Junius Serius Augurinus,
and Gaius Trebius Sergianus

as Ordinary consuls