FULV1286 Q. Fulvius (29, cf. 95) M. f. Nobilior

Life Dates

  • 196?, birth (Rüpke 2005)

Career

  • Epulo 180 to after 136 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Q. Fulvius M. f. succeeded P. Manlius (Vulso ?). Liv. 40.42.7. Tum praetextatus (Liv.) (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 153. Both Livy (39.44.10) and Cicero (Brut. 79) identify the IIIvir col. deduc. of 184 (MRR 1.377) with the future consul of 153. Sumner finds this incredible since he and his older brother Marcus (Cos. 159) must have suffered a most improbable delay in their careers if Quintus was old enough to be a colonial commissioner by 184 (at 43 years of age in 153 he would be only 13 or 14 in 184). His suggestion is that the commissioner was not Quintus but his brother Marcus, then about 20 years of age, and that M. Fulvius M. f. (Nobilior) and Q. Fulvius M. f. (really a Flaccus) in the original records received the wrong cognomina (Orators 40, and stemma, 41). It must remain a hypothesis. On the difficulty of identifying the different Fulvii of this period, see MRR 1.391, note 3. Quintus may well have been the Q. Fulvius M. f. (29) who became IIIvir Epulo in 180 (Liv. 40.42.7, tum praetextatus). See Sumner, loc. cit. (Broughton MRR III)