Quintus Fabius Vibulanus Ambustus

Quintus Fabius Vibulanus Ambustus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 412 BC.[1]

This article is about the consul of 412 BC. For other people named Quintus Fabius contemporary to the consul, see Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 423 BC) and Quintus Fabius Ambustus (tribune).

Fabius belonged to the Fabia gens, a patrician family which was one of the gentes maiores and leading political families in Ancient Rome. Fabius relationship to the other Vibulani and Ambusti is uncertain as no filiation has survived, but there are indications that Marcus Fabius Vibulanus, consul 442 BC, or a namesake to the consul, was his father. There are no known descendants to Fabius.[2]

Career

Fabius was elected as one the consuls in 412 BC, sharing the office with Gaius Furius Pacilus. Both consulars held the imperium for the first time. There is little noted of events (with the exception of an agrarian law being proposed by one of the plebeian tribunes) and the actions of the consulars during the year and both consulars are not seen in our records following their consulship.[3][4][5][6]

Conflicting identification

There exists a discussion in regards to the identity of the consul in 412 BC with the classicist Münzer identifying this consul as the same individual as Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, consul in 423 BC, while later scholars such as Degrassi and Broughton identify the consuls as two different individuals.[7]

See also

References
  1. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic, 1951, vol i, pp.76
  2. Broughton, vol i
  3. Chronograph of 354 (Virvullano et Filippo)
  4. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, iv. 52.1-52.2
  5. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica, xiii. 54.1
  6. Broughton, vol i, pp.76
  7. Broughton, vol i, pp.76 (note 1)
Political offices
Preceded by
Aulus Cornelius Cossus
Lucius Furius Medullinus		 Roman Consul
with Gaius Furius Pacilus
412 BC		 Succeeded by
Marcus Papirius Atratinus or Marcus Papirius Mugillanus
Spurius Nautius Rutilus
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