Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 423 BC)

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Quintus Fabius Vibulanus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 423 BC and a consular tribune in 416 and 414 BC. [1]

Fabius belonged to the patrician Fabia gens and the branch known as the Fabii Vibulani, one of the republics oldest and most successful consular families. Fabius it seems was the son of Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, the consul of 467 BC, who had been forced into exile after the fall of the Decemvirate in 449 BC. If this is the case then filiations indicate that Marcus Fabius Vibulanus, consul in 442 BC and Numerius Fabius Vibulanus, consul in 421 BC were his brothers. Marcus Fabius Ambustus, the pontifex maximus mentioned in 390 BC could possibly be a son of Fabius. [2]

Career

In 423 BC Fabius was elected as consul together with Gaius Sempronius Atratinus. Fabius colleague Sempronius fought against the Volscians and failed to the extant that he would later be put to trial for "endangering his army". It remains unclear in what role Fabius played during this episode and Sempronius would end up being convicted and fined after a long trial ending in 420 BC. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

In 416 BC Fabius was elected as consular tribune together with Aulus Sempronius Atratinus (cousin of his former colleague), Marcus Papirius Mugillanus and Spurius Nautius Rutilus. The actions of the consular tribunes during the year is unknown, the main event described being the failed attempt by the plebeian tribunes, Spurius Maecilius and Marcus Metilius, to enact a new agrarian law. [8] [9] [10] [11]

In 414 BC Fabius was elected for a second time as consular tribune, his third time holding the imperium . His colleagues were Gnaeus Cornelius Cossus, Lucius Valerius Potitus and Publius Postumius Albinus Regillensis. The year saw war with the Aequi and initial success for the Romans as Fabius' colleague Postumius captured the city of Bolae. Rising conflict involving a plebeian tribune, Marcus Sextius, and new agrarian reforms resulted in a mutiny against Postumius and the death of both the consular tribune and one of the quaestors, Publius Sestius. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

The year following his second term as consular tribune Fabius was appointed as Interrex to hold the comitia, resulting in the election of consuls instead of the increasingly common colleges of consular tribunes. [19] [20]

There is a possibility that Fabius, in 412 BC, was once again elected consul. His colleague would have been Gaius Furius Pacilus and little to nothing is known of the events during the consulship with the exception of a proposal of an agrarian law by the plebeian tribune Lucius Icilius. [21] [22] [23] [24] The discussion surrounding this consulship is in regards to if the Fabius mentioned as consul is our Fabius, the consul of 423 BC, or another otherwise unattested Fabius, Quintus Fabius Ambustus Vibulanus. The classicist Münzer would have that both consulships belonged to the consul of 423 BC while later scholars such as Degrassi and Broughton identify the consuls as two different individuals. [25]

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References

  1. ↑ Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, 1951, vol i, pp.68, 73–75
  2. ↑ Broughton, vol i
  3. ↑ Chronograph of 354 (Arretino et Vivullano)
  4. ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita , iv. 37–44
  5. ↑ Valerius Maximus, Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium libri IX, iii. 2.8
  6. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquties, xii, 6.5
  7. ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.68-71
  8. ↑ Livy, iv, 47.8-48.1
  9. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, xiii, 9.1
  10. ↑ Chr. 354. (Arratino III et Mugillano II)
  11. ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.73-74
  12. ↑ Livy, iv, 49.7-50.5
  13. ↑ Diodorus, xiii, 38.1, 42.6
  14. ↑ Chr. 354, (Vivullano II et Potito)
  15. ↑ Val. Max. ix, 8.3
  16. ↑ Lucius Annaeus Florus, Epitome of Roman History, i, 17.7
  17. ↑ Joannes Zonaras, Extracts of History, vii, 20
  18. ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.74-75
  19. ↑ Livy, iv, 51.1
  20. ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.76
  21. ↑ Livy. iv. 52.1-52.2
  22. ↑ Diodorus. xiii. 54.1
  23. ↑ Chr. 354. (Vivullano et Filippo)
  24. ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.76
  25. ↑ Broughton, vol i, pp.69 (note 1), 76 (note 1)
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