Marcus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 483 and 480 BC)

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Marcus Fabius Vibulanus was consul of the Roman republic in 483 and 480 BC.[1]

For a seven year period from 485 to 478 BC, one of the two consuls was a member of the gens Fabia, a domination of the office Gary Forsythe describes as "unparalleled in the consular fasti of the Roman Republic.[2] His brothers were Quintus (consul in 485 and 482 BC) and Kaeso (consul in 484, 481, and 479 BC). According to the recorded filiation of his son, Marcus' father's praenomen was Caeso Fabius.

Livy states that during Marcus Fabius' first consulship in 483 BC there were attempts, continued from previous years, by the tribunes to increase their powers, which were successfully resisted by the Roman senate.[3]

According to Roman historical tradition, all of the male members of the gens Fabia except one perished in the Battle of the Cremera in 477 BC. If this tradition is correct, then Marcus died that year in the disaster. Tradition identifies the sole survivor as his son Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, who was too young to participate to go to war.[4]

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  1. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2.42-43
  2. ^ Forsythe, A Critical History of Early Rome (Berkeley: University of California, 2005), p. 195
  3. ^ Livy, 2.42
  4. ^ Livy, 2.50; Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 9.20-1
Political offices
Preceded by
Lucius Aemilius Mamercus
Caeso Fabius Vibulanus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Valerius Potitus
483 B.C.
Succeeded by
Quintus Fabius Vibulanus II
Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus
Preceded by
Caeso Fabius Vibulanus II
Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Gnaeus Manlius Cincinnatus
480 B.C.
Succeeded by
Caeso Fabius Vibulanus III
Titus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus