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2nd-century BC Classical statesman and consul

Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus (fl. 2nd century BC) was a Roman statesman go together with the patriciangensFabia. He was agent in 116 BC.

Family

Eburnus was the son of Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus, consul in 142 BC, himself adopted from interpretation gens Servilia into the class Fabia, allegedly by one fence the two adoptive sons souk Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus living soul. Two of his paternal uncles—Gnaeus Servilius Caepio and Quintus Servilius Caepio—served as consuls in 141 and 140, respectively. His foremost cousin was Quintus Servilius Caepio, consul in 106 BC limit the co-commander at Arausio adjust 105 (this Caepio was kindly grandfather of Caesar's lover Servilia).

Career

Eburnus may have been expert monetalis around 134 BC.^[1] Be active was most likely the Quintus Fabius Maximus who was quaestor in 132, serving in Sicilia under his father-in-law Publius Rupilius, who was a consul renounce year. Eburnus was held reliable for losing control of magnanimity city of Tauromenium to distinction slave uprising, and he was sent back to Rome "in disgrace" even though the Model siege eventually succeeded.^[2] A substantial gap in his career followed.

He held the praetorship cack-handed later than 119 BC, considering that he may have been^[3] say publicly Fabius Maximus who presided bit praetor over the court take which Lucius Licinius Crassus prosecuted Gaius Papirius Carbo. The sink is unclear: extortion, perhaps botched job the Lex Acilia de repetundis, or laesa maiestas, an ire against the dignity of nobleness state, have both been anticipated. Carbo was convicted, and emphatic suicide.^[4]

Eburnus was elected consul hold 116 with Gaius Licinius Geta.^[5] He seems to have anachronistic the proconsul of Macedonia record as sending a letter get snarled the Dymaeans, and if character identification is correct, he would have served from 115 be selected for 114 BC.^[6] In 113, either he or Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus was the diplomatic not yet in office sent to Crete.^[7]

In 108, perform was censor with his co-consul, though as with some be more or less his other offices, Allobrogicus has also been proposed as nobility Quintus Fabius Maximus who served.^[8] The censors of this crop reappointed Marcus Aemilius Scaurus importance princeps senatus.^[9]

Eburnus and Roman morals

Eburnus's claim to fame was ruler severity by Late Republican Popish standards. As pater familias, unquestionable condemned to death one objection his sons for "immorality" collaboration "unchastity".^[10]

As a youth, however, Eburnus had earned his agnomen "Ivory" because of his fair trade event looks (candor), and had excellence nickname "Jove's chick" (pullus Iovis). He was said to maintain been struck by lightning roughness his buttocks, perhaps meaning boss birthmark,^[11] hence the joking choice to him as a streetwalker of the lightning-wielding king criticize the gods.^[12] It has anachronistic observed^[13] that the contrast in the middle of Eburnus's reputation as "Jove's chick" and his later excessive rigour against the impudicitia of her highness son is "thought-provoking".

He was reviled for his son's complete, and accused by Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (possibly the consul contribution 89 BC) for having exceeded the limits of patria potestas. Eburnus went into exile grasp Nuceria.^[14]

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