Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

FABI1594 Q. Fabius (110) Q. Aemiliani f. Q. n. Maximus Allobrogicus

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Juv. Sat. 8.1-32

Life Dates

  • 164?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R61.

  • Before 100?, death (RE)

Relationships

grandson of
L. Aemilius (114) L. f. M. n. Paullus Macedonicus (cos. 182) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Liv. per. 61, Vell. II 10.2, Vell. II 39.1

son of
Q. Fabius (109) Q. f. Q. n. Maximus Aemilianus (cos. 145) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plin. n.h. XXXIII 141, Val. Max. VII 5.1, Val. Max. VIII 15.4

nephew of
P. Cornelius (335) P. f. P. n. Scipio Africanus Aemilianus (cos. 147) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Mur. 75, Plin. n.h. XXXIII 141, Val. Max. VII 5.1, Val. Max. VIII 15.4

father of
Q. Fabius (107) Maximus (son of Q. Fabius (110) Q. Aemiliani f. Q. n. Maximus Allobrogicus (cos. 121)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Tusc. I 81, Val. Max. III 5.2

grandfather of
? Q. Fabius (143) Sanga (pr. before 58) (DPRR Team)

Career

  • Quaestor 134 Hispania Citerior (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Commended to the electors by Scipio (Val. Max. 8.15.4), and despite the cognomen Buteo in Appian (Ib. 84) is probably the nephew who had charge under him of 4000 volunteers for the Spanish war. See Cichorius, Untersuch. Lucil. 317f. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor before 123 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The latest possible date for his praetorship under the Lex Villia. He was governor of a Spanish province in 123 (Plut. CG 6.2). (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 741 (Brennan 2000)
  • Propraetor 123 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The identification proposed by Wilsdorf (Leipzig. Stud. 1 [1878] 107). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Propraetor in Spain, censured by the Senate on the motion of Gracchus for exacting gifts of grain from a Spanish city (Plut. CG 6.2, with title {Gr}). On the title, see Jashemski, 46f. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Consul 121 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • On Fabius' filiation, see Act. Tr. for 120. Opimius' father Quintus is mentioned by Lucilius, 418 M. He was Consul in 154. The letters n and part of Q remain in Fast. Ant. Opimius' name was used to date a famous vintage, e.g. CIL 1(2).2.659b; Cic. Brut. 287; Vell. 2.7.5; Plin. NH 14.55, and 94; Petron. 34.6; Mart. 1.26.7; 2.40.5; 3.26.3; and 82.24; 9.87.1; 10.49; 13.113; Plut. Sull. 35.1. On his reputation, note Cic. De Or. 2.169; P. Red. ad Quir. 11; Planc. 70-71, 88; Sest. 140; Pis. 95; Mil. 8, and 83; Rep. 1.6; Sall. Iug. 16.2; Vell. 2.7.3; Oros. 5.12.10. (Broughton MRR I)
    • CIL 1 .2.659; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 162f. (L. Opim[i. Q. f.] Q. n., Q. Fa[b]i. Ma[xim.]); Liv. Per. 61; Plin. NH 2.98; Obseq. 33; Chr. 354 (Opimio et Maximo); Fast. Hyd. (Opimio et Maximo Aemilii); Chr. Pasc. ({Gr}); Cassiod.; Augustin. CD 3.24; see Degrassi 126, 472f. Opimius, elected as an opponent of the Gracchan program, promptly made use of the disorders which ensued when Gracchus and Fulvius protested against the repeal of the Rubrian law (see 122, Tribunes of the Plebs) to secure passage of the senatus consultum ultimum and crush them and their supporters (Cic. Cat. 1.4; 4.13, and Schol. Gron. 290 Stangl; Planc. 88; Phil. 8.14; De Or. 2.165; Part. Or. 104; Diod. 34.29-30; Liv. Per. 61; Val. Max. 2.8.7; Ascon. 17 C; Plin. NH 14.55; Plut. CG 13-17; Flor. 2.3; App. BC 1.24-26; Auct. Vir. Ill. 65.5-6; 72.9; Ampel. 19.4; 26.2; Oros. 5.12.5-8). There is frequent mention of the reward offered for Gracchus' head, the cruelty to Fulvius' son, and the slaughter of Gracchus' followers (Sall. Iug. 16.2; Diod. 34.29-30; Val. Max. 6.3.1; 9.4.3; Vell. 2.6.5, and 7.2-3; Plin. NH 33.48; Plut. CG 17-18; Flor. 2.3.6; App. BC 1.26; Auct. Vir. Ill. 65.6; Oros. 5.12.9-10). After a lustration he rebuilt the temple of Concord (App. BC 1.26; Plut. CG 17.6; Augustin. CD 3.25) and a basilica (Varro LL 5.156; Cic. Sest. 140; cf. CIL 1(2).2.1336, 1337). Fabius joined Domitius, subdued the Allobroges, and then defeated the Ruteni and Arverni and captured their leader (Cic. Font. 36; Caes. BG 1.45.2; Strabo 4.1.11;{521} Val. Max. 9.6.3, successor of Domitius; Vell. 2.10.3, and 39.1; Plin. NH 7.166; 33.141; Flor. 1.37.4-6; App. Celt. 12; Apollod. in FGrH 2 B. 1027, no. 25; Amm. Marc. 15.12.5). He built a monument at the scene of his victory (Strabo, Flor., Apollod.), and took the cognomen Allobrogicus (Val. Max. 3.5.2; 6.9.4; Vell. 2.10.3, and 39.1; Senec. Ben. 4.30.2; Plin. NH 33.141; Iuven. 8.13; Amm. Marc. 15.12.5; Ps.-Ascon. 211 Stangl; cf. ILS 212.2, line 25). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cos. 121. In MRR 1.520, refer also to Strabo 4.2.3. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Triumphator 120 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Allobrogibus et rege Arvernorum Betuito. MRR I.524, Itgenshorst no. 221, Rich no. 221. (Rich 2014)
  • Proconsul 120 Hispania (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Proconsul (Act. Tr.). Returned from Gaul to celebrate a triumph over the Allobroges and Betuitus king of the Arverni (Act. Tr., Degrassi 82f., 560; Flor. 1.37.5; Eutrop. 4.22; cf. Liv. Per. 61; Strabo 4.1.11; Vell. 2.10.2; Val. Max. 6.9.4; 9.6.3; Suet. Nero 2; Ps.-Ascon. 211 Stangl). (Broughton MRR I)
    • According to Eutropius (4.22) and Valerius Maximus (9.6.3) Domitius was the captor of Bituitus, King of the Arverni. See RE; Jullian, Hist. Gaule 3.19; CAH 9.111f.;C. H. Benedict, "The Romans in Southern Gaul," AJPh 63 (1942) 38-50. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 119 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Additions and Corrections. A milestone of the Via Domitia, found in 1949 at Pont de Treilles in the department of Aude at about twenty miles from Narbo, and inscribed Cn. Domitius Cn. f. Ahenobarbus imperator XX, raises the probability that his proconsulate extended until the founding of Narbo in 118 and that his triumph was not celebrated until that or even the following year (P.-M. Duval, "A propos d'un miliaire de Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Imperator," CRAI 1951, 161-168). It follows that the term of the proconsulate and the date of the triumph of Q. Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus should also be placed in thesse years. Both triumphs precede the triumph of Metellus Delmaticus in 117. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 118 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Additions and Corrections. A milestone of the Via Domitia, found in 1949 at Pont de Treilles in the department of Aude at about twenty miles from Narbo, and inscribed Cn. Domitius Cn. f. Ahenobarbus imperator XX, raises the probability that his proconsulate extended until the founding of Narbo in 118 and that his triumph was not celebrated until that or even the following year (P.-M. Duval, "A propos d'un miliaire de Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Imperator," CRAI 1951, 161-168). It follows that the term of the proconsulate and the date of the triumph of Q. Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus should also be placed in thesse years. Both triumphs precede the triumph of Metellus Delmaticus in 117. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Ambassador)? 113 Crete (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The date of this embassy is set approximately by the course of the disputes in eastern Crete as revealed by the inscriptions cited above and by other inscriptions connected with these disputes (I. Cret. 1.16, nos 3, 4A, 4B, 5, and 18). Mention of the Athenian archon Sarapio provides a terminus post quem in 116 (I. Cret. 1.16.4B, partly repeated in REA 44.35, no. c), and the embassy had reported to the Senate in Rome before June, 112 (I. Cret. 3.4.9, and 10). After 116 there was time for Olus and Lato to come to hostilities, receive an arbitral judgment from Cnossos, and then after further difficulties have that judgment confirmed by the Roman embassy (documents in I. Cret. 1,{538} and REA, above). On the other hand, the hostilities between Itanos and Hierapytna were discussed in the Roman Senate under the Consuls of 115 and 114 (I. Cret. 3.4.10). The embassy under Fabius was sent to Crete, and its report guided the Senate in its deliberations under the Consul of 112. The most probable date for the sending of the embassy is 113. See, most recently, M. Guarducci, Epigraphica 9 (1947) 32-35 (published March, 1949). (Broughton MRR I)
    • This embassy was sent to Crete to intervene in the disputes between a number of cities of eastern Crete, Hierapytna and Itanos, and{537} Olus and Lato, with their respective allies Gortyn and Cnossos, which had led to local wars (H. van Effenterre, REA 44 [1942] 31-51, esp. 36, with all five names; and M. Guarducci, I. Cret. 3.4.9, lines 74ff., and 10, lines 68ff., with mention of Q. Fabius as head of an embassy). (Broughton MRR I)

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