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IN THIS HONOR, MAXIMUS WAS CALLED FATHER BY THE ARMY. LIVY, VALERIUS book 1. DICTATOR twice. YEAR 452. Consul with P. Decio. YEAR 457. Consul 5 times with P. Decio. YEAR 469. Livy, book 10.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. M. N. GVRGES. Q. Fabius, son of Q., grandson of M. Dedicated the temple of Venus. Livy, book 10. Consul with D. Junius. YEAR 461. Cassiodorus. When he had fought poorly against the Samnites and the Senate was deliberating about removing him from the army, his father Fabius begged off this ignominy for him, promising that he would go as a legate to his son, and aided by his advice, the son defeated the Samnites and triumphed. Epitome 11, Eutropius, book 2.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXV. VERVCOSSVS,
AUGUR. Cicero in Cato. Consul with M. Pomponius. YEAR 520. Cassiodorus. He defeated the Ligurians and triumphed over them. Plutarch. Dedicated the temple of Virtue and Honor. Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2. Censor with M. Sempronius. YEAR 523. Consul 2 times with Sp. Carvilius. YEAR 525. Cassiodorus. Cicero in Cato. DICTATOR for holding elections, YEAR 532. Because of a religious error, he abdicated. Valerius, book 1. DICTATOR 2 times, YEAR 537. Livy 22. Polybius, book 3. He defeated Hannibal by delaying. Cicero, De Officiis 1. Virgil, book 6. Valerius, book 5, chapter 2. Consul 3 times with Ti. Sempronius. YEAR 539. Livy 23. Consul 4 times with M. Claudius. YEAR 544. Livy 24. Consul 5 times with Q. Fulvius. YEAR 544. He captured Tarentum. Cicero in Cato and Orator 2. Livy, book 27. He died at an advanced age in the consulship of Servilius and Claudius. Livy, book 30. Pliny writes that he died while in office, book 5, chapter 2; Valerius mentions this in chapter 2 of the 6th book.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS consul with Ti. Sempronius. YEAR 540. Livy, book 24. He died while his father was alive. Cicero, De Natura Deorum book 3. Letters 5, in Cato, though there the initial M. is written in error.
He painted the temple of Salus. Pliny, book 35, chapter 5. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1. Valerius, book 2, chapter 15.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. C. N. PICTOR. FLAMEN QVIRINALIS. Quirinal Priest. Inaugurated in the consulship of Fulvius and Manlius. Livy, book 37.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS LABEO. FLAMEN QVIRINALIS. Livy, book 37. Consul with M. Claudius. YEAR 570. Cassiodorus. Livy, book 38. Atticus, with Probus as source, writes that Hannibal died in the consulship of these men. Cicero mentions him in Brutus.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS AEMILIANUS. Adopted from the Aemilian line. Consul with L. Hostilius. YEAR 604. Cassiodorus. Appian in The Hispanic Wars. Cicero in Laelius.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS AEMILIANUS,
WHO WAS LATER CALLED ALLOBROGICUS. Consul with L. Opimius. YEAR 621. Cassiodorus. Obsequens. He defeated the Allobroges and triumphed over them. Velleius, book 2. Cicero pro Fonteio, pro Murena. Censor with L. Calpurnius, YEAR 629. Valerius writes in chapter 9 of book 6 that as an adolescent, there was nothing more infamous, and as a man, nothing more ornate than him in that century.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS ALLOBROGICVS. Valerius, book 3, chapter 5, bears witness that this man led a ruined life, and for that reason, he was interdicted from his paternal property by Q. Pompeius, the City Praetor.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS SERVILIANVS. Adopted from the Servilian line. Consul with L. Metellus. YEAR 611. Cassiodorus. Appian. Censor with Q. Fulvius. YEAR 617.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS EBVRNVS. Ivory.
Consul with C. Licinius. YEAR 627. Cassiodorus. Festus is the authority that he was called "the pale one" pullum of Jupiter because of his whiteness.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS. Caesar's legate in Spain; he triumphed over Pompey. Consul with C. Trebonius. YEAR 708. Cassiodorus. He died in office. Dio, book 43.
PAVLLVS FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVMVS. Consul with Q. Aelius. YEAR 741. Cassiodorus. Dio, book 54. Pliny, book 7, chapter 7.
Q. FABIVS Q. F. Q. N. MAXVM. AFRICANVS. Conqueror of Africa. Consul with Julius Antonius. YEAR 743. Cassiodorus. Dio, book 54.