Numerius Fabius Vibulanus
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Consular tribune (415, 407 BC)
Numerius Fabius Vibulanus | |
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| Years active | fl. c. 421–407 BC |
| Office | Consul (421 BC) Consular tribune (415, 407 BC) |
Numerius (or Gnaeus) Fabius Vibulanus (fl. c. 421–407 BC) was a Roman senator and military commander. As consul in 421 BC, he campaigned successfully against the Aequi, for which he was awarded an ovation.[1] During his term in office, Fabius and his colleague, Titus Quinctius, also carried a law which increased the number of quaestors from two to four.[2][3]
Fabius was later a consular tribune in 415 and 407 BC.[4] In 407 BC, Fabius and the other tribunes oversaw the loss of Verrugo to the Volscians.[5]
Fabius could have been one of the unknown censors who completed the lustrum in between 417 and 404 BC as suggested by the classicist Jaakko Suolahti. Suolahti, drawing from the fact that the census described in 403 is numbered lustrum XVI and counting from lustrum X which was held in 459 BC only gives us four pairs of censors (in 443, 435, 430 and 418 BC), thus a missing lustrum XV. Additionally drawing upon a gap in the Fasti Capitolini from 414 to 410 BC the censorship can likely be placed within this timeframe, with Suolahti leaning towards the year 410 BC. Suolahti's main suggestions for these unknown censors are Spurius Nautius Rutilus and Manius Aemilius Mamercinus but adds Fabius as one of the viable options. While Suolahti argues for the existence of these unknown censors and lustrum XV, these possible candidates should be noted, and is noted by the author himself, are simply educated guesses based on the suitability of the candidates to the office and are in the authors words "mere suppositions".[6]