FURI0086 Sp. Furius (70) Fusus

Status

  • Patrician

Career

  • Consul 481 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The corrupt cognomen in Diod. ({Gr}) provides a basis for the suggestion in CIL 1(2), p.16, that the fragment of the letter N preserved on the stone is part of Medullinus (see Fast. Cap. for 405), a cognomen frequent among the early Furii, but Degrassi (89) affirms that there was no space for [Medulli]n(us) on the stone. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 2.43.2, and 46.6; Diod. 11.48.1; Fast. Cap. ([- - - -] n. Fusus); Dion. Hal. 9.1.1; Chr. 354 (Vivulano III et Pelos); Fast. Hyd. (Sabino et Fugo); Chr. Pasc. ({Gr}); Cassiod.; Zon. 7.17; Degrassi 24f., 89, 356f. According to Livy (2.43.5-11), Fabius fought the Aequi and Furius the Veientani; according to Dion. Hal. (9.2.3-4.3), the reverse. Cf. Val. Max. 9.3.5; Zon. 7.17. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul? 478 Aequian territory (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • In command against the Aequi (Dion. Hal. 9.16.4: {Gr}; 9.17.5). (Broughton MRR I)