Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

FABI0762 M. Fabius (53) M. f. M. n. Buteo

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Juv. Sat. 8.1-32

Life Dates

  • 278?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 54.

Relationships

son of
? Otacilia (18) (daughter of N. Otacilius (6)) (DPRR Team)
brother of
N. Fabius (55) M. f. M. n. Buteo (cos. 247) (RE)
father of
-. Fabius (51) Buteo (son of M. Fabius (53) M. f. M. n. Buteo (cos. 245)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Oros. IV 13.18

grandfather of
? Q. Fabius (31, 57) (Buteo)? (pr. 196) (Brennan 2000)
M. Fabius (54) Buteo (pr. 201) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Oros. 4.13.18

Career

  • Consul 245 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap. (names entire); Flor. 1.18.30, on Buteo; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; see Degrassi 42f., 116, 436f. Florus (1.18.30-32) speaks of a victory over the Punic fleet at Aegimurus, followed by storm and shipwreck, Zonaras (8.16) of the continued changes of command. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 241 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap. (C. Aurelius C. f. C. n. Co[tta]), Degrassi 42f., 117, 438f.; cf. Jerome Chr. ad ann. 244, p. 132 Helm; and on Fabius, Liv. 23.22.10; Fabius' name must be supplied here in Fast. Cap. since all the other possible places are definitely known. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador)? 218 Africa (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Livy clearly believes that the leader of this embassy was Q. Fabius Maximus, but Dio and Zonaras call him M. Fabius, who would then be the senior ex-Censor M. Fabius Buteo (Cos. 245, Cens. 241). Willems suggests (2.503, note 3) that {Gr} in Dio is a corruption of {Gr}, but the absence of the name in Polybius and the silence regarding the event in the Elogium, Plutarch's life of Fabius Maximus, and the Auct. Vir. Ill. tend to favor Buteo. The choice remains uncertain. See Münzer, RE s. v. "Fabius," no. 116, col. 116f. (Broughton MRR I)
    • These men, defined by Livy as maiores natu, were sent to Carthage with Rome's ultimatum (Liv. 21.18.1, cf. 21.19.6, and 20.9; Dio fr. 55.10; Zon. 8.22; cf. Polyb. 3.20.6 and 9, and 33.1-4, and 40.2; Frontin. Str. 1.11.4; Sil. Ital. 2.1-390; App. Ib. 13). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Dictator 216 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Appointed without a Master of Horse to revise the roll of the Senate, a task which he promptly completed, and immediately abdicated (Liv. 23.22.10-23.8; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 46f., 119, 444f.; Plut. Fab. 9; cf. Lyd. Magg. 1.37; see Mommsen, Str. 1.626, note 3; 2.148, 159, note 2; Bandel, 133-135). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Princeps Senatus c. 216 (Ryan 1998) Expand
    • p. 223 (Ryan 1998)

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