Liv. 9.20.7, and 21.1; Diod. 19.17.1; Fast. Cap. (names entire); Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Degrassi 36f., 109, 418f. They held command in Apulia and Lucania (Liv. 9.20.8-9; cf. Diod. 19.65.7, under 316). (Broughton MRR I)
Liv. 9.30.1; Diod. 20.3.1 ({Gr} for Iunius); Fast. Cap. (names entire); Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Degrassi 36f., 110, 420f. Iunius held command in Samnium where he regained Cluviae and captured Bovianum of the Pentri, and returned to celebrate a triumph; Aemilius in Etruria, where he relieved Sutrium, and returned to celebrate a triumph (Liv. 9.31-32; Diod. 20.25, who puts both Consuls in Apulia; Act. Tr., Degrassi 70f., 542; Zon. 7.1). Both Consuls refused to recognize the order of the Senate established by the Censors Claudius and Plautius (Liv. 9.30.1-2). (Broughton MRR I)
A tantalizing fragment of an Elogium, inscribed in letter forms of the first century after Christ, was found late in 1950 in Brundisium at the probable site of the ancient forum. It was first published by F. Ribezzo (II Carrocio del Sud, n.s. 2, 1951, 4ff.), and later by G. Vitucci (RFIC 31, 1953, 43-61). The text, with Vitucci's admittedly uncertain supplements, reads as follows: Primus senatum legit et comiti[a ordinavit M. Iunio Pera M.] Barbula cos. circumsedit vi [cepitque Tarentum praesi] diumque Hannibalis et prae[dam ingentem. Solus a viris] militaribus praecipuam glor[iam cunctando sibi paravit.] Vitucci considers it an Elogium of M. Fabius Maximus Cunctator and would refer the first phrases to his censorship in 230 with the suggestion that they place the reform of the centuriate assembly at that time. L. R. Taylor (AJPh 78, 1957, 351-353), while holding that this reform belongs to the censorship of 241 (Liv. Per. 20) when the last two tribes were created, refers these phrases to the achievement of Fabius as censor in 230 in being the first to complete these duties in one year or one consulship. Earlier censors had carried through lections of the Senate. The relation of the inscription to the colony of Brundisium is not clear, nor yet the reason for omission of much of the material in other Elogia of the Cunctator. Gabba's interpretation that the inscription honors a local magistrate of the first period of the colony (founded ca. 244 B.C.) has much to recommend it (Athenaeum 36, 1958, 90-105). He suggests the following text: Primus senatum legit comiti[a instituit M. lunio Pera M. Aemilio] Barbula co(n)s(ulibus). Circumsedit Vi[binum bello punico secundo praesi] diumque Hannibalis et prae[fectum eius cepit. Victor in rebus] militaribus praecipuam glor[iam sibi comparavit.] Thus the inscription presents, like a recently discovered one at Tarquinia, an example of memories of old local history still living and tenacious in the imperial period. Recently R. Develin, noting that the second part of the censorship of Ap. Claudius Caecus, the time of the first record of a lection of the Senate by the censors, coincided with the consulship in 311 of an Aemilius Barbula (34), suggested that he was the person honored (Historia 25, 1976, 484-487). Claudius' registration of the freedmen could not help but affect the comitia. However, it is difficult to find a suitable occasion then for engagements with Carthaginians, although a treaty was renewed in 306. And in the period before the founding. of Brundisium there is no apparent reason for the location of the inscription. Others continue to hold for Fabius Cunctator: Vitucci in Studi Annibalici, Accad. Etrusca Cortona, Annuario 12, n.s. 5, 1961-64, 17-69, and Annal. Fac. Lett. Filos. Univ. Perugia 1, 1963-64, 3ff., and Degrassi, Acta 5th Internat. Congress Greek and Latin Epig. 1967, 161.[5x]
(Broughton MRR III)