Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

FANN1523 C. Fannius (7) M. f. (C.? n.)

Life Dates

  • Before 165?, birth (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
M. Fannius (14) C. f. (son of? C. Fannius (6) (tr. pl. 184)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Q. Fr. 3.5.1, Cic. Att. 4.16.2, Cic. Rep. 1.18, Cic. Brut. 101, Cic. Lael. 1, Cic. Lael. 26, Quintil. Inst. 7.9.12, App. Ib. 67 (287)

married to
Laelia (26) (daughter of C. Laelius (3) C. f. C. n. Men. Sapiens (cos. 140)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

App. Ib. 67 (287), Cic. Att. IV 16.2, Cic. Brut. 101, Cic. Lael. 26, Cic. Lael. 5, Cic. p. red. in Sen. 38

father of
? C. Fannius (8) C. f. (pr. before 81) (RE)
C. Fannius (9) C. f. (pr. before 49) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Q. Fr. 3.5.1, Cic. Att. 4.16.2, Cic. Rep. 1.18, Cic. Brut. 101, Cic. Lael. 1, Cic. Lael. 26, Quintil. Inst. 7.9.12, App. Ib. 67 (287)

Career

  • Officer (Title Not Preserved) 147 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • On the identification of Fannius, see 122, Consuls, and note 2. (Broughton MRR I)
    • All three served under Scipio at Carthage, Laelius certainly as a Legate, who commanded one division of the forces against Nepheris (Cic. Rep. 2.67, cf. Lael. 103; App. Lib. 126; Zon. 9.30). Fannius and Gracchus were among the first to scale the wall of Carthage, probably that of the Megara (Plut. TG 4.5).{465} (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 122. He was probably too young to be a legate at Carthage in 147-146 when with Ti. Gracchus he led in scaling the walls (Plut. TG 4.5), but was probably a junior member of Scipio's staff. Probably not a tribune of the plebs in 142 (see above, on C. Fannius C. f. [7]), but was tr. mil. under Servilianus in Spain in 141 (MRR 1.478, 479, note 1). A tribunate of the plebs in the 130s, though probable, is unattested. On his praetorship in 126-127, see MRR 1.509, note 2. See Sumner, Orators 53-55, 171-174; Shackleton Bailey, CLA 5.400403; Gruen, RPCC 66-67; R. J. Rowland, Jr., Phoenix 23, 1969, 373. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Officer (Title Not Preserved) 146 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • On these two, see 147, Legates. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 122. He was probably too young to be a legate at Carthage in 147-146 when with Ti. Gracchus he led in scaling the walls (Plut. TG 4.5), but was probably a junior member of Scipio's staff. Probably not a tribune of the plebs in 142 (see above, on C. Fannius C. f. [7]), but was tr. mil. under Servilianus in Spain in 141 (MRR 1.478, 479, note 1). A tribunate of the plebs in the 130s, though probable, is unattested. On his praetorship in 126-127, see MRR 1.509, note 2. See Sumner, Orators 53-55, 171-174; Shackleton Bailey, CLA 5.400403; Gruen, RPCC 66-67; R. J. Rowland, Jr., Phoenix 23, 1969, 373. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Tribunus Militum 141 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • On Fannius' identity, see 122, Consuls and note 3. An ex-Tribune and family friend of Servilianus was likely to be a Legate, but Appian mentions him among the {Gr}. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Served under Servilianus against Viriathus in Spain (App. Ib. 67). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 122. He was probably too young to be a legate at Carthage in 147-146 when with Ti. Gracchus he led in scaling the walls (Plut. TG 4.5), but was probably a junior member of Scipio's staff. Probably not a tribune of the plebs in 142 (see above, on C. Fannius C. f. [7]), but was tr. mil. under Servilianus in Spain in 141 (MRR 1.478, 479, note 1). A tribunate of the plebs in the 130s, though probable, is unattested. On his praetorship in 126-127, see MRR 1.509, note 2. See Sumner, Orators 53-55, 171-174; Shackleton Bailey, CLA 5.400403; Gruen, RPCC 66-67; R. J. Rowland, Jr., Phoenix 23, 1969, 373. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Augur? 133 (Rüpke 2005)
  • Augur 132 to after 122 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Augur before 129 (Cic. Lael. 8). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Plebis? before 129 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 122. He was probably too young to be a legate at Carthage in 147-146 when with Ti. Gracchus he led in scaling the walls (Plut. TG 4.5), but was probably a junior member of Scipio's staff. Probably not a tribune of the plebs in 142 (see above, on C. Fannius C. f. [7]), but was tr. mil. under Servilianus in Spain in 141 (MRR 1.478, 479, note 1). A tribunate of the plebs in the 130s, though probable, is unattested. On his praetorship in 126-127, see MRR 1.509, note 2. See Sumner, Orators 53-55, 171-174; Shackleton Bailey, CLA 5.400403; Gruen, RPCC 66-67; R. J. Rowland, Jr., Phoenix 23, 1969, 373. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor? 126 urbanus?, Rome? (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fannius is named a Praetor in the decree reported by Josephus (AJ 13.9.2, 260-265) as a response to envoys of John Hyrcanus I of Judaea, the date of which is much disputed. Bevan (CAH 8.530) would place it in 134 before the capture of Jerusalem by Antiochus Sidetes, and others have placed it as late as 105/4 toward the end of Hyrcanus' reign in the time of Antiochus Cyzicenus. Münzer (RE) favors 132, but this is improbable if the C. Sempronius who is named as a witness was Tuditanus, the Consul of 129 and Praetor of that year, and leaves a long but not unexampled interval between the praetorship and the consulship of Fannius. Willrich suggests 127/6 (Urkundenfälschung in der hellenistisch-jüdischen Literatur 64ff.), and his suggestion has been accepted by Oesterley and Robinson (History of Israel 2.277f.). It makes the interval between Fannius' magistracies fall within a usual period, and is quite possible within the terms of the decree itself, since Roman representations appear to be addressed, not to Antiochus Sidetes who died in 129, but to some unnamed ruler, requesting him to withdraw from points which Antiochus had captured. See the bibliography by R. Marcus on the decrees of the Senate reported in Josephus, in vol. 7, pp. 775-777 of the Loeb Classical Library translation of Josephus. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 122. He was probably too young to be a legate at Carthage in 147-146 when with Ti. Gracchus he led in scaling the walls (Plut. TG 4.5), but was probably a junior member of Scipio's staff. Probably not a tribune of the plebs in 142 (see above, on C. Fannius C. f. [7]), but was tr. mil. under Servilianus in Spain in 141 (MRR 1.478, 479, note 1). A tribunate of the plebs in the 130s, though probable, is unattested. On his praetorship in 126-127, see MRR 1.509, note 2. See Sumner, Orators 53-55, 171-174; Shackleton Bailey, CLA 5.400403; Gruen, RPCC 66-67; R. J. Rowland, Jr., Phoenix 23, 1969, 373. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 741, footnote 159 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 122 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • CIL 1(2).2.658 (C. Fanni. M. f. Cos.) shows that the Consul was M. f., not C. f., as Cicero once thought (Brut. 99-100). In Lael. 3 and Brut. 100 he refers to M. f. as Laelius' son-in-law, and in Att. 12.5b.3 reports that the statements of Fannius himself, of Hortensius, and of Brutus in the Epitome, all indicate against Atticus that the same man was also the historian. In Att. 16.13c.2 it appears that the son of Marcus was Tribune of the Plebs in 142, and was therefore the officer in Spain in 141. The historian may also be identified with the young man who mounted the walls of Carthage in 146 with Ti. Gracchus (Plut. TG 4.5). As Münzer points out, Cicero's confusion probably arises from the fact that a C. Fannius C. f. was also known in the same period (Hermes 55 [1920] 427ff.; see Polyb. 38.12.1; and 146, Legates). An inscription recently discovered in Crete confirms Münzer's suggestion, and reveals that a C. Fannius C. f. was a member of a Roman senatorial commission in Crete about 113 B.C. (H. van Effenterre, REA 44 [1942] 31-51). The order of names in the inscription indicates that he was then of praetorian rank and senior to P. Rutilius Rufus, the Consul of 105, who held the praetorship at the latest in 118 (see 118, Praetors, and 113, Legates). According to Münzer's suggested stemma (loc. cit.) Fannius, the Consul of 122, was a nephew of the Consul of 161 and a grandson of the Tribune of the Plebs of 187. See discussions by Hendrickson, AJPh 27 (1906) 198f.; Fraccaro, Athenaeum 1926, 153-161; Kornemann, Klio, Beiheft 1, 20ff. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cic. Brut. 99-100; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 162f. ([Cn.] D[- - - -], C. Fan[- - - -]); Plin. NH 2.99; Obseq. 32; Chr. 354 (Enobarbo et Fanno); Fast. Hyd. (Ahenobarbo et Faenio), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Fannius, CIL 1 .2.658. See Degrassi 126, 472f. Domitius succeeded Sextius in Gaul, where he was victorious over the Salluvii, and then engaged in war against the Allobroges and the Arverni (Liv. Per. 61; Vell. 2.10.2, and 39.1; Strabo 4.2.3; Val. Max. 9.6.3; Suet. Nero 1.2; 2.1; Flor. 1.37.4-6; App. Celt. 12; Eutrop. 4.22; Oros. 5.13.2; Jerome Chr. ad ann. 127, p. 146 Helm; see 121 and 120, Promagistrates). Fannius, though elected over Opimius by the aid of C. Gracchus, turned against him, and opposed particularly the proposal to grant citizenship to Latins and Italians (Plut. CG 8.2-3; 11.2-3; 12.1-2; cf. Cic. Brut. 99; De Or. 3.183; FOR 1.246f.). (Broughton MRR I)

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